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Subject: folksonomies
For those of you not done yet with folksonomies, or those who'd like a
re-cap of the discussion, I've written up a little piece on this really
great
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RE: STEVE folksonomies / was
Please respond to subject keyword searching in CMS
mcn-l@mcn.edu and DAMS
Richard et al.,
I wanted to clarify something about my question Does anyone have an opinion
about the value, in the networked information world, of the hierarchical LC
subject format I described (Steel Industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.)?
We do buy in to the idea of using LCSH as an
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For those of you not done yet with folksonomies, or those who'd like a
re-cap of the discussion, I've written up a little piece on this really
great thread at http://hangingtogether.org/?p=68. Enjoy!
Günter Waibel
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Günter,
Thanks for a good summary of the MCN-L
discussion. I wanted to highlight one of the
attractions of folksonomy for the art museums
involved in Steve that you didn't mention: It's a
bridge between the museum and the visitor.
There's a semantic gap between the way that
museum
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Subject: Re: STEVE folksonomies / was subject keyword searching in CMS
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Subject: Re: STEVE folksonomies / was subject keyword searching in CMS
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We've also got a lot to learn about what people find interesting in our
Subject: RE: STEVE
folksonomies / was subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS
We are grappling with the question of subject headings
at the moment, in several ways. We had not done any subject cataloguing until
about 2 years ago, in a collaborative project involving a museum (ours), a
digital
chosen as labels. Terms suggested
by users should be added to the vocabulary when likely to be sought,
either as preferred terms or non-preferred entry points. The problem
with uncontrolled folksonomies is that many different words may be
used for the same concepts, and someone searching using one word
Hey everyone ---
these discussions echo some of the themes we've explored in steve.
How you conceptualize folksonomy is related closely to what it is you
think you are enabling by it, and thinking about one half of that
equation exposes pre-conceptions on the other.
If you think that
We are grappling with the question of subject headings at the moment, in
several ways. We had not done any subject cataloguing until about 2 years ago,
in a collaborative project involving a museum (ours), a digital library, an
archive, and a history center. The partners decided to use
Title: mcn_mcn-l digest: November 22, 2005
Does anyone have an opinion
about the value, in the networked information world,of the hierarchical LC
subjectformat I described above ("Steel
Industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.")? Are others using this format (and why) or
are you using single
of the amount of clean-up of uncontrolled
terms/descriptions.
So what about folksonomies and keywords?
I think the development of folksonomies is very exciting. It allows us to
leverage large social groups to do what we don't always have the staffing to
do and it puts description in the hands
background, before I moved over to the digital imaging side)!
Deborah Wythe
Brooklyn Museum
Head of Digital Collections and Services
718 501 6311
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To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: RE: STEVE folksonomies
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
://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
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
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