Digital image tagging: A case study with seventh grade students
School Libraries Worldwide, 18(1):97-110 (Jan 2012).
Zorana Ercegovac
ABSTRACT
Results of this exploratory study are of analytical and educational importance. Analytically, the study was designed to gauge middle school students’ capacity to describe digital expressional images. When describing the image attributes, students (N=81) used freely chosen single words, multi-word phrases, interpretations, feelings, and questions evoked by the images. These were used to derive conceptual categories for the seventeen digital images from two open source digital libraries. Educationally, the study demonstrated to the students the responsibility indexers have in their choice of index terms they assign to objects in collections for the purposes of identification, organization and retrieval. The study sheds light on the potential to improve age-appropriate access to images by means of offering a multi-tiered approach to image representation. It also introduces a transparent approach to teaching information literacy concepts through creative thinking about the meaning of resources and their relationship in a broader information cycle context.
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