Disrupting the Metanarrative: A Little History of Image Indexing and Retrieval

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Pauline Rafferty is Senior Lecturer at Aberystwyth University, teaching knowledge organization and representation, information architectures, and qualitative approaches to research. Her research interests include knowledge organisation and cultural documentation, and critical communication and information studies. Specific areas of interest include popular culture in and through the web, the democratisation of critical authority, and participative digital cultural production. She holds a PhD in critical theory and cultural studies. Pauline is Joint Editor of Journal of Information Science and Joint Regional Editor of The Electronic Library. She has co-edited books for Facet and co-written a book for Ashgate.