Social classification and folksonomy in art museums: Early data from the steve.museum tagger prototype

Advances in Classification Research Online

Volumn 17, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Trant, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a Archives and Museum Informatics   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTS COMPUTING; DIGITAL STORAGE; HISTORY; MUSEUMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ART HISTORIANS; CULTURAL CONTEXT; CULTURAL RECORDS; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; MUSEUM COLLECTIONS; PHYSICAL NATURE; PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE; PUBLICATION HISTORY;

EXHIBITIONS;

EID: 84869855273     PISSN: 23249773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7152/acro.v17i1.12495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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