- Steve.museum
The steve.museum project is a collaborative effort to improve public access to, and engagement with,
art museum collections. To do so, it is exploring the possibilities of user-generated descriptions of works of art, also known asfolksonomy . Currently project staff comprises a group of volunteers, mostly from art museums, including theGuggenheim Museum , theCleveland Museum of Art , theMetropolitan Museum of Art and theSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art , as well asArchives & Museum Informatics .cite journal | author=Jennifer Trant| title=Exploring the Potential for Social Tagging and Folksonomy in Art Museums: Proof of Concept| url=http://www.archimuse.com/papers/steve-nrhm-0605preprint.pdf]Folksonomy is a relatively new phenomenon whereby web-users tag content for the purposes of later retrieval. It allows the public to introduce new search-terms, in the form of tags, to the formallibrary catalog that art and cataloging professionals themselves might not have included. It also allows curators and other museum professionals to see what the public sees in works of art.cite journal | author=Jennifer Trant| title=Social Classification and Folksonomy in Art Museums: Early Data from the steve. museum tagger Prototype| journal=Archives & Museums Informatics| year=2006-11-04| url=http://www.archimuse.com/papers/asist-CR-steve-0611.pdf] cite journal | author=Susan Chun, Rich Cherry, Doug Hiwiller, Jennifer Trant, Bruce Wyman| title=Steve.museum: An Ongoing Experiment in Social Tagging, Folksonomy, and Museums| journal=Museums and the Web 2006| year=2006-03-22| url=http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/papers/wyman/wyman.html] These terms will enrich the catalog and increase the likelihood that searchers of all levels will find what they are looking for. In the end, it is hoped that museum collections will be fully searchable by keywords rather than just by name or artist.Cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/click-for-culture/2006/10/30/1162056906810.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1|title=Click for Culture|accessdate=2008-05-14|year=2006-10-30|author=Lisa Timson|work=The Age] Early results from the project found that a number of tags were applied often, while others were applied just once per work of art.The project received a $1 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services,Cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28social.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&pagewanted=all|title=One Picture, 1,000 Tags|accessdate=2008-05-14|year=2007-03-28|author=Pamela Licalzi O'Connell|work=The New York Times] from which the
Indianapolis Museum of Art is working to apply folksonomy to its collection,Cite web|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-30923176_ITM|title=Wikipedia for Art?|accessdate=2008-05-14|year=2007-04-23|work=Indianapolis Business Journal] and is one of a number of related projects currently working to make art more accessible and to find its role in the digital age.Cite web|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32576556_ITM|title=Can Museums Survive in a YouTube World?|accessdate=2008-05-14|year=2007-08-09|work=PR Newswire]ee also
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Collaborative tagging
*Folk taxonomy
*Freetag
*Social bookmarking References
External links
* [http://www.steve.museum/ steve.museum]
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