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Dear colleagues,
The steve project is concluding a two-year research project funded by
the Institute of Museum and Library Services ("Investigating Social
Tagging and Folksonomy in Art Museums") that considers ways in which
social tagging can enhance access to online collections. One aspect of
our research has included surveying museum professionals at the
project's eight partner institutions about their museums' online
collections, as well as about their own knowledge of and attitudes
toward social tagging.
We now seek responses from a larger, technology-focused, segment of
the museum community to the same survey questions that were answered
by the museum professionals at the steve partner institutions. Would
you take 15 minutes to answer a few questions about your museum's
online collection, and about social tagging? Your input will be
valuable to us, and will help us to better understand the attitudes of
museum professionals. Please click on the link below (or paste it into
your browser) to access the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=exlmYzIuQTrDRI6MO5KINg_3d_3d
Thank you!
The steve.museum project team
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Your Privacy
Responses to the survey will be analysed by research project staff and
shared with project participants. Your privacy as a survey respondent
will be respected. Responses to the survey will be analyzed
anonymously, and in the aggregate. Individual responses will not be
linked to known people; individuals will not be identified in
distributed analyses, although they may be characterized by department
or job function.
Research Results
The steve project's research results are available on the project web
site at www.steve.museum. Final research results, including
information about this survey, are scheduled to be released in late
2008-early 2009.
For more information about the project, please visit our web site or
contact us at steve at steve.museum.
