Teenie Harris Archive Search Interface

Museum Image Search System: by Qi Li.
This is Teenie Harris Archive search tool.

Keyword Search

To test the keyword search, you can try http://crystal.exp.sis.pitt.edu:8080/FacetedSearch/InformationServlet?query=body
or

Basic Entity Search

This search provides the entity search which is based on the entities extracted by IBM named entity tool. Therefore, the entity types are limited in the following 45 types:
person, people, location, occupation, title_work, organization, facility, cardinal, date, organ, event_meeting, ordinal, event_communication, event_violence, food, event_demonstration, money, dateref, salutation, measure, age, animal, substance, weapon, event_performance, event_legal, vehicle, plant, event_sports, disease, country, duration, area, percent, time, product, geologicalobj, event_personnel, event, timeref, companyrole, event_disaster, event_custody, law, event_business.
For the distribution of IBM Entities, you can refer to entities. To test the entity search, you can try: http://crystal.exp.sis.pitt.edu:8080/FacetedSearch/SearchEntityServlet?mention=body&type=person .
or
Notes: Why do we need ENTITY search?
It can use as a way for disambiguation. For example, STAR can be PERSON or OCCUPATION or LOCATION

"The Eastern Stars" is the type of "LOCATION". For example: Image of 24943: Twelve women and a girl, members of the Eastern Stars, dressed in costumes, holding percussion instruments, and standing in front of stage with landscape backdrop
"Gold Star Mother" is the type of "OCCUPATION". For example: Image of 45271: Portrait of woman, possibly Gold Star mother, wearing light colored jacket and sling-back shoes, sitting on edge of church pew number 52, with textured window in background, another version

Basic Category Search

This search is based on the specific categories which are manually annotated by the CMOA experts. The total are 1013 categories. And the sample categories includes like:
women, men, group portraits, portraits, interiors, clothing and dress, studio portraits, decoration and ornament, hats, buildings, boys, girls, eyeglasses, signs, flowers, children, brides, tables, wedding costume, churches, curtains, bridegrooms, Windows, Automobiles, Young adults, Chairs, Military uniforms, Streets, Sidewalks, Cakes, Advertising, Houses, Banquets, Coats, Offices, Babies, Bars, Living rooms, Doors, Plants, Microphone, Pianos, Trees, Storefronts, Living room furniture, Gymnasiums, Brick walls, Flags, Stairs, Paintings, Clergy, Furniture, Stages (Platforms), Crowds, Fireplaces, Musicians, Jewelry, Uniforms, Books, Stained glass, Store windows, Desks, Wallpaper, Food, Church buildings, Lamps, Fences, Graduates, Suits (Clothing), Trophies, Rugs, Handbags, Costumes, Meetings, Audiences, Doorways, Musical instruments, Drinking customs, Dresses, Lawns, Gloves, Neckties, Handshaking, Porches, Fur, Basketball players, Telephones, Mirrors, Blinds, Elderly people, Basketball, Sports, Candles, Restaurants, Yards, Posters, Stores, Retail, Bottles, Caskets, Clocks and watches, Bands (Music), Trade shows, Basketball teams, Televisions, Dining rooms, Birthday parties, Crowns, Choirs (Music), Classrooms, Evening gowns, Awnings, Christmas trees (with the frequency larger than 500)
For the complete category list, plese refer to CATEGORY
To test the category search, you can try http://crystal.exp.sis.pitt.edu:8080/FacetedSearch/SearchCategoryServlet?category=Bells
or

Also you can search on the CITY or STATE information like, http://crystal.exp.sis.pitt.edu:8080/FacetedSearch/SearchEntityServlet?mention=pittsburgh&type=city
Notes: Why do we need CATEGORY search?
Category can help complete the incomplete information from the description of image. For example,

482 Women with dictaphones and typewriters in classroom with teacher, poster reading "Health... Cleanliness... in background c. 1955-1970 ---- Catalogers assign the category of "Office equipment and supplies".
509 Workers at Presbyterian University Hospital celebrating and making V signs and wearing caps "Local 1199 Drug and Hospital Union" in recognition of union 1969 ---- Catalogers assign the category of "Demonstrations".
4326 View down steps into restaurant and bar ---- Catalogers assign the categories of "Chairs", "Tables", "Plants", "Stairs"

Dynamic Entity Search

Relation Search

To test the relation search, you can try http://localhost:8080/FacetedSearch/SearchRelationServlet?query=man.arg1 portrait.arg2
or http://crystal.exp.sis.pitt.edu:8080/FacetedSearch/SearchRelationServlet?arg1=man&arg2=portrait&relation=of
or

Others

For other related search/browser tools, you can refer to:
Yiling Lin: Faceted browser system
http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~yiling/faceted_search_browser.php
Jaewook Ahn: Entity browser/filtering system (testing account: cma_test, cma)