-----Original Message----- From: Amalyah Keshet [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: STEVE & folksonomies / was subject & keyword searching in CMS and DAMS
----- Original Message ----- 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 <snip> > 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] --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
