Re: STEVE folksonomies / was subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-23 Thread Leonard Will
In a message on Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Richard Urban museumn...@earthlink.net wrote 2. Clustering/Collocation Using a limited, controlled set of terms means it will be easier to establish relationships between individual items and put like things next to each other. This is more difficult when

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-17 Thread Deborah Wythe
-l@mcn.edu To: mcn-l@mcn.edu 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

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-17 Thread Cathryn Goodwin
University Art Museum Princeton, NJ 08540 609.258.9374 -Original Message- From: Deborah Wythe [mailto:deborahwy...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:31 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: RE: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS This doesn't make a lot of sense to me--why

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-17 Thread Mike Rippy
to ask a system: show me all the cats. Deborah Original Message Follows From: JanaH jana.h...@cartermuseum.org Reply-To: mcn-l@mcn.edu To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: RE: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:04:12 -0600 Deborah, Museums don't always publish

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-17 Thread Matt Morgan
images!) may want to ask a system: show me all the cats. Deborah Original Message Follows From: JanaH jana.h...@cartermuseum.org Reply-To: mcn-l@mcn.edu To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: RE: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:04:12 -0600 Deborah

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-17 Thread brian cors
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

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-17 Thread Konin, Peter
: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:53 AM To: mcn_mc...@listserver.americaneagle.com; lists...@mcn.edu Subject: Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS Wow, thanks for passing along info on STEVE. And yes, social tagging for enhancement of our collections database keywords for off the street users

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-17 Thread JanaH
@mcn.edu 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

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-17 Thread Gordon McKenna
Members of the list, You might like to consider a glance at Iconclass a subject specific international classification system for iconographic research and the documentation of images. See: http://www.iconclass.nl It uses the following 'main divisions': 0 Abstract, Non-representational

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-17 Thread J. Trant
...@concretecomputing.com] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:20 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu 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

subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-16 Thread Deborah Wythe
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

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-16 Thread Frank Thomson
- From: Deborah Wythe [mailto:deborahwy...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:12 PM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu 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

Re: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS

2005-11-16 Thread JanaH
-5179 fax All opinions are my own and not those of my employer. -Original Message- From: Deborah Wythe [mailto:deborahwy...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:12 PM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: subject keyword searching in CMS and DAMS I'm curious to know if your museum