The eye of the beholder: Steve.Museum and social tagging of museum collections

ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Trant, Jennifer ^a   Bearman, David ^a   Chun, Susan ^b  

^a Archives and Museum Informatics   (Canada)

^b Cultural Heritage Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Folksonomy; Museums; Open source; Research; Social tagging

Indexed keywords

ART MUSEUMS; DATA SETS; END USERS; FOLKSONOMIES; LIBRARY SERVICES; MUSEUM COLLECTIONS; ON CURRENTS; OPEN SOURCES; PROJECT ACTIVITIES; RESEARCH RESULTS; SOCIAL TAGGING;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; MUSEUMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870968242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. Bearman, D., & Trant, J. (2005). Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement: Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections. D-Lib Magazine, 11(9), http://www.dlib.org/ dlib/september05/bearman/09bearman.html
2. Chun, S., Cherry, R., Hiwiller, D., Trant, J., & Wyman, B. (2006). Steve.museum: An Ongoing Experiment in Social Tagging, Folksonomy, and Museums. Paper presented at the Museums and the Web 2006: selected papers from an international conference. Retrieved September 11, 2006, from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/papers/wyman/wyman.html.
3. Guy, M., & Tonkin, E. (2006). Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? D-Lib Magazine, 12(1), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html
4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Chun, S., Stein, R., & Trant, J. (2006). Researching Social Tagging and Folksonomy in Art Museums: U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), http://www.imls.gov/applicants/samples/NLG%20RD%20Sample%20The%20Met.pdf
5. Trant, J. (2006a). Exploring the potential for social tagging and folksonomy in art museums: proof of concept. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 12(1), 83-105, http://www.archimuse.com/papers/steve-nrhm- 0605preprint.pdf (Pubitemid 44180374)
6. Trant, J. (2006b). Social Classification and Folksonomy in Art Museums: early data from the steve.museum tagger prototype. Paper presented at the ASIST SIG-CR workshop on Social Classification. http://www.archimuse.com/papers/asist- CR-steve-0611.pdf
7. Trant, J. (2006c). Understanding Searches of an On-line Contemporary Art Museum Catalogue. A Preliminary Study: Fall 2006 http://conference.archimuse. com/system/files/trantSearchTermAnalysis061220a.pdf
8. Trant, J., & steve.museum. (2007). Museum Attitudes to Social Tagging: Baseline Survey Responses
9. Trant, J., & Wyman, B. (2006). Investigating social tagging and folksonomy in art museums with steve.museum. Paper presented at the World Wide Web 2006: Tagging Workshop. http://www.archimuse.com/research/www2006-tagging- steve.pdf