Matt or anyone else who knows -
For those of us who weren't able to attend the STEVE session at MCN this
year, could you give us an overview of its mechanics? Where are the
terms stored, are they reviewed by anyone, etc.? I know what it is, but
how does it work?
Jana Hill
Collection Database Coordinator
Amon Carter Museum
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
817-989-5173
817-989-5179 fax
All opinions are my own and not those of my employer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Morgan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: subject & keyword searching in CMS and DAMS
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.
Deborah Wythe wrote:
This doesn't make a lot of sense to me--why would museums >not<
publish subject terms in their web/public versions of the catalog?
Isn't the purpose of creating subjects/keywords to make the
collections more accessible --to everyone, not just inhouse users?
Museum staff are likely to be looking for a specific object and have
key data--title or accession numbers--but members of the public
(including picture researchers who might buy our images!) may want to
ask a system: "show me all the cats."
Deborah
----Original Message Follows----
From: "JanaH" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: subject & keyword searching in CMS and DAMS
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:04:12 -0600
Deborah,
Museums don't always publish their subject cataloging to their
websites.
Usually only select fields are exported from the collection management
system, and for several reasons, the subject fields don't make the
cut.
I think you'll find that the depth of information stored in collection
management systems isn't really reflected in museum websites. So I
guess
what I'm saying is that just because you don't see it on the Web
doesn't
mean someone isn't recording that information.
That said, I think most of us probably use a vocabulary based on the
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), with local terms added where
necessary. We don't use LCSH because they are usually too
conceptual/vague for our needs, but maybe someone else will weigh in
on
that?
Jana Hill
Collection Database Coordinator
Amon Carter Museum
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
817-989-5173
817-989-5179 fax
All opinions are my own and not those of my employer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Wythe [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: subject & keyword searching in CMS and DAMS
I'm curious to know if your museum assigns formal subject headings
and/or
keywords to works of art in their collections management or digital
asset
management systems. A little poking around on the Web seems to
indicate
it's
not too common -- artist name, title, medium, collection, maybe a
general
category, yes, but something approaching the depth of the subject
headings
used in library catalogs--maybe no?
If you do assign subject headings, which authorities are used -- LCSH?
AAT?
Thanks,
Deborah
Deborah Wythe
Brooklyn Museum
Head, Digital Collections and Services
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
tel: 718 501 6311
fax: 718 501 6125
email: [email protected]
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