Media professionals – such as news editors, image researchers, and documentary filmmakers - increasingly rely on online access to digital content within audiovisual archives to create narratives. Retrieving audiovisual sources therefore requires an in-depth knowledge of how to find sources digitally. These storytelling practices intertwine search technologies with the user’s ideas and production cultures. This paper presents qualitative research insights into how media professionals search in digital archives to create (trans)medial narratives, and uses the notion of creative retrieval to unravel the dynamics of audiovisual narrative production. Creative retrieval combines ideas about the effects of media convergence on media content, theories about serendipitous information retrieval, and studies of creativity to argue that retrieval practices of media professionals who create audiovisual narratives are governed by organizational, technological and content affordances and constraints. The paper furthermore exemplifies the first stage of an ongoing research project in which a user-centered design approach guides open source self-learning search algorithm development to support creative retrieval.

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视听叙事创作和创造性检索：如何通过故事搜索来塑造故事

媒体专业人士，例如新闻编辑，图像研究人员和纪录片制片人，越来越依赖在线访问视听档案中的数字内容来创建叙述。因此，检索视听源需要深入了解如何以数字方式查找源。这些讲故事的实践将搜索技术与用户的想法和生产文化交织在一起。本文对媒体专业人员如何在数字档案馆中进行搜索以创建（跨）媒体叙述进行定性研究，并使用创意检索的概念来揭示视听叙述产生的动态。创意检索结合了有关媒体融合对媒体内容的影响的思想，有关偶然信息检索的理论，以及对创造力的研究认为，创造视听叙事的媒体专业人士的检索实践受组织，技术和内容提供和约束的支配。本文进一步举例说明了正在进行的研究项目的第一阶段，其中以用户为中心的设计方法指导开源自学搜索算法的开发以支持创意检索。