Topographic Combination of Images and Text for Information Discovery in a Digital Library Context Jean-Charles Lamirel, Jacques Ducloy, and Hager Kammoun   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries and Indexing Abstract The main characteristic of MicroNOMAD Discovering Tool, which is presented in this paper, is both to provide an user with emergent analyses of a multimedia database contents and with querying and browsing guidelines through the use of an advanced topographic interface model. One of the key features of MicroNOMAD is the possibility to dynamically exploit semantic exchanges between multiple viewpoints on the database. The tool basic principles are firstly described. A tool experimentation, which is achieved on a multimedia database server, demonstrates that the combination of both the topographic structures, the textual and iconographic interaction, and the viewpoint exchanges proposed by the MicroNOMAD core model could play an essential role in several discovering and browsing processes. DiSC'01 Copyright ©2002 ACM Inc.