Exploring the potential for social tagging and folksonomy in art museums: Proof of concept

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-105

  Trant, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS;

ART MUSEUMS; MUSEUM DOCUMENTATION; SOCIAL TAGGING;

MUSEUMS;

EID: 33746859726     PISSN: 13614568     EISSN: 17407842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614560600802940     Document Type: Article

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