Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Expert Tagging: An Oxymoron?
Presenters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art
From abstract: " "Steve" (www.steve.museum) is a research project on social tagging of museum collections. Project team members have learned firsthand about the usefulness of social tagging methods for eliciting user-contributed terms from cataloguers with specialist knowledge not usually available to museum professionals."
Example of what public searchers expect to find compared to museum record. No common terms.
Steve tool has been released as Open Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/steve-museum/
From abstract: " "Steve" (www.steve.museum) is a research project on social tagging of museum collections. Project team members have learned firsthand about the usefulness of social tagging methods for eliciting user-contributed terms from cataloguers with specialist knowledge not usually available to museum professionals."
Example of what public searchers expect to find compared to museum record. No common terms.
Steve tool has been released as Open Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/steve-museum/
# posted by Andrew Middleton @ 3:52 PM 
