Wow, thanks for passing along info on STEVE.
And yes, "social tagging" for enhancement of our collections database
keywords for "off the street" users is something that we have been
thinking of.
We were just currently in grant-writing mode to fund a project that
would update a lot of things with our digital collection - and keywords
are one of those things.
For personal photos, I myself Flickr for image hosting and sharing - and
their method, I find, is really enjoyable - and useful.
I actually contacted Flickr to see if they would be interested in
working on a project with us, and folksonomy-based "tagging" - to get
more "everyday user" keywords into our search fields, but Flickr does
not offer a standalone server and were not interested in working
together on something...
Sad, because the folks who make EmbARK are highly interested in this as
well - and that's what we use for our collections database...
In any case, I'll peep at STEVE and see what that's all about. Thanks!
And, if anyone else is utilizing folksonomy-based tools for generation
of generalized/every-day keywords, I'd be interested to hear what you're
doing.
Matt Morgan wrote:
This looks like a great place to plug "social tagging," (an approach to
"folksonomy," i.e., using popular terminology for subject
categorization) like what STEVE (http://steve.museum) promises.
Folksonomies are a way to address the reality that Museum and Library
professionals often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the
terms most people use when searching online. STEVE is an open-source
tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create
folksonomies.
Alongside the folksonomies, I still think it's worthwhile for museums to
make their internal subject terms more public. Exposing the insides of
the Museum in a demystifying, educational way is a great
community-minded thing to do.
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