Using Ancillary Text to Index Web-based Multimedia Objects

PériCulture is the name of a research project at the Université de Montréal which is part of a larger project based at the Université de Sherbrooke. The parent project aimed to form a research network for managing Canadian digital cultural content. The project was financed by Canadian Heritage and was conducted during the fiscal year 2003-2004. PériCulture takes its name from péritexte and culture, péritexte being one of a number of terms used (in French, our working language) to mean ancillary text associated with images and sound. It is a sister project to DigiCulture, another part of the same larger research project which studied user behaviours in interactions with Canadian digital cultural content. The general research objective of PériCulture was to study indexing methods for Web-based nontextual cultural content, specifically still images, video, and sound. Specific objectives included: