A volunteer who has been working on tagging projects with me this summer created an account and tagged images on steve today. She chose to enter terms in Spanish, possibly to change things up from the other projects we have been working on, or to test her knowledge. In the future, it might be interesting to study foreign language terms submitted by people for whom that language is their primary language. If the language a tagger spoke at home as child is not the one they learned in school, or vice versa, and that could effect the grammar or spelling of the foreign term.
She also thought that as soon as she selected Spanish as her preferred tagging language, the page should have reset to Spanish language instructions. Andrea Bour Assistant Registrar for Collections Information Cleveland Museum of Art 11150 East Blvd Cleveland OH 44106 abour at clevelandart.org -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of J. Trant Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 8:44 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] [steve.discuss] second phase of steve tagging experimentdeployed Please do try and tag in languages other than English! The tagger software is language agnostic; it will accept terms in any language. We're also very interested in exploring the implications of foreign-language terms in the tag set. Indeed, some hope that tagging might be a way to provide alternative language access to collections. best, jennifer At 2:17 PM +0200 7/17/07, Else Laura Rademaker wrote: >Hi Jennifer, > >A question before I will try tagging the objects of art: >What happens when one starts tagging in Dutch or an other foreign >language? > > >Else Laura Rademaker >else.rademaker at den.nl >Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland (DEN) >Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5 >Postbus 90407 >2509 LK Den Haag, the Netherlands >T. + 31 (0)70 314 0762 >www.den.nl >www.digitaalallemaal.nl > > >-----Original Message----- >From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of >J. Trant >Sent: donderdag 12 juli 2007 16:02 >To: mcn-l at mcn.edu >Subject: [MCN-L] [steve.discuss] second phase of steve tagging >experimentdeployed > >Hi all, > >we've just deployed the second phase of the steve.museum tagging >experiment. at http://tagger.steve.museum > >the steve tagger (a piece of open-source software) is a key tool in >our IMLS-funded study of the contribution social tagging and >folksonomy can make to on-line access to art collections. throughout >our experiement we'll be varying the interface of the tagger to find >out what encourages tagging, and we'll also be studying the results >of tags, to see if they are: > > - real words (we're using word net) > - terms from our discipline (we're using the AAT and ULAN) > - new to the museum (we're comparing to museum documentation) > - appropriate to the work of art (we're doing term-by-term >review). > >we're looking forward to sharing the results of our study with the >community. If you'd like to participate, please come by. [it's ok if >you don't work in an art museum -- and ok if you do!] > > Go to http://tagger.steve.museum > - create an account [this is important for our research] > - Tag Art! >Thanks. > >jennifer > >-- >__________ >J. Trant jtrant at archimuse.com >Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 >Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 >158 Lee Ave, Toronto >Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com >__________ >_______________________________________________ >You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum >Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > >To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > >To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l >_______________________________________________ >You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum >Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > >To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > >To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l -- __________ J. Trant jtrant at archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __________ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
