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From: "J. Trant" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: STEVE & folksonomies / was subject & keyword searching in CMS
and DAMS
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We've also got a lot to learn about what people find interesting in our
collections. We really don't know how they will describe them, but we're
pretty sure that the way the general public thinks about art and the way
that a specialist conceives of it are very different: preliminary tests
have also born this out. if we know what kinds of things people are
interested in will we change our descriptive practices?
Image licensing people (well, me at least) can attest to this being true.
How would a cataloger or curator tag the image that a client thinks is
perfect for the cover of his book "Idle Hours" (American Impressionist
Childe Hassam) or "Philosophy of Social Science" (an abstract painting by
Joseph Zaritzky), or his novel in its French translation (1940s photograph
of a tree)?
Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
fax 02-670-8064
tel 02-670-8874
[email protected]
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