id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_jplmov7fqfegfecm6noasauhny Lyne Da Sylva Using Ancillary Text to Index Web-based Multimedia Objects 2006.0 18 .pdf application/pdf 5974 423 61 Using Ancillary Text to Index Web-based Multimedia Objects Musée virtuel canadien/Virtual Museum Canada site, the web pages we examined do not include all those containing paintings; since a number of criteria were used to score each page, not all pages with useful elements contained in the "alt" attribute) was useful for describing the multimedia objects on the page. For each HTML page of the selected sites, we located all types of ancillary text associated with the images sidered it to be the multimedia object, since it is does appear on the page and since ancillary text can describe both the target image that requires a click to be displayed and the corresponding thumbnail. For the first image, 7.58% of words preceding it are useful for indexing, compared to 6.56% in the paragraphs following it. Our study found that a large number of useful indexing terms are available in the ancillary text of web sites ./cache/work_jplmov7fqfegfecm6noasauhny.pdf ./txt/work_jplmov7fqfegfecm6noasauhny.txt