This paper presents the MicroNOMAD Discovering Tool. Its main characteristic is both to provide an user with emergent analyses of a multimedia database content and with querying and browsing guidelines through the use of an advanced topographic interface model. The model also allows the user 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 the multimedia data-base associated to the BIBAN "Art Nouveau" server is then developed. It clearly 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.
['Jean-Charles Lamirel', 'Jacques Ducloy', 'Hager Kammoun']
A self organizing map (SOM) extended model for information discovery in a digital library context