21.154 tagging in museums: steve.museum research

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 154.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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         Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:16:23 +0100
         From: "J. Trant" <jtrant_at_archimuse.com>
         Subject: tagging in museums: steve.museum research

Hi all,

we've just deployed the second phase of the steve.museum tagging
experiment, at http://tagger.steve.museum

the steve tagger (a piece of open-source software) is a key tool in
our IMLS-funded study of the contribution social tagging and
folksonomy can make to on-line access to art collections. throughout
our experiment we'll be varying the interface of the tagger to find
out what encourages tagging, and we'll also be studying the results
of tags, to see if they are:

        - real words (we're using word net)
        - terms from our discipline (we're using the AAT and ULAN)
        - new to the museum (we're comparing to museum documentation)
        - appropriate to the work of art (we're doing term-by-term review).

we're looking forward to sharing the results of our study with the
community. If you'd like to participate in tagging, please come by.
[it's ok if you don't work in an art museum -- and ok if you do!]

        Go to http://tagger.steve.museum
        - create an account [this is important for our research]
        - Tag Art!

To learn more about our research, visit http://www.steve.museum

Thanks.

jennifer

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