Hoi,
At the Europeana conference in Amsterdam they informed us about a museum
where they had not only the terminology used by professionals, they also had
labels that were added by the public. Analysis of the positive searches
showed that 85% of the searches where because of labels only 15% was because
of the official and correct keywords.
This result was discussed in several museums and many museums refused to use
labels because there was no truth in the labels. When you want to go dublin
core you are talking at best about the 15%.
We need to work on better usage not build another white elephant.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 29 October 2010 20:30, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> in ontological structure - they already have the category tree. It's
>> for the casual user to type in a few words they're thinking of. Think
>> something like Getty Images. "Commons is sorta like Getty Images
>> except it's all free and the search sucks."
>>
>> And why not work on metadata? If you have possibility of inserting
> keywords this will improve information retrieval.
> Now we have the technical metadata, we need more metadata on the document,
> we definitely need to improve the descriptive metadata of the represented
> object.
> For example, if I have a scan of a public domain book I need both to
> describe the scan itself
> and the book.
> If we would have the possibility of using the Keywords in the DC as tags,
> in a user-friendly way,
> we could have both old categories and tags useful for searching.
> It always go in the direction of Dublin Core (I bet this a recurring
> discussion too...), and it solves problem of Wikisources too (I'm sorry I
> repeat myself, but I a cause worth of it ;-))
>
> Aubrey
>
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