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ISI 5121 Subject Analysis of InformationSocial Tagging Group 6
Meghan DunlapElizabeth RossPeter Forestell
Mariane Léonard
Steve Museum
A- (see comments below and on bibliography)
As a non-specialist in the field of art and sculpture, what terms would you use to locate this item in a museum’s database?
animal
antler
stag
gold
statue
gilded
• Artist/Maker: Joachim Friess ca. 1579-1620, m. 1610• Title: Diana and the Stag• Object Name: AUTOMATON• Date: First quarter 17th century (about 1620)•Made in: Country: Germany, City: Augsburg• Medium: Silver, partly gilt, jewels, enamel
• Based on open source software which aids developers in social tagging research in museum collections, while testing the effectiveness of tagging
• Socially focused data tagging tool aimed at making museum collections and acquisitions more accessible.
• Steve.museum’s goal is to build interest around museum and gallery holdings.
21 Institutions95468 Objects508250 Terms4962 Users
Peter Paul Ruebens, “The Straw Hat” (1625)
In 2008, Steve.Museum received a National Research Grant for Advancing Digital Resources from the US Institute of Museum and Library Service.
“The goals of the grant are to enhance the existing tagging software tools to make steve easy to use for museums of all sizes and types; to develop next-generation tagging tools that motivate and engage users, including mobile interfaces that allow tagging in museum spaces; to investigate ways to aggregate tags in order to facilitate cross-collection searching and browsing; and to demonstrate integrations of the steve tagger with commonly-used museum systems” (www.steve.museum)
Viewer Tagging in Art Museums: Comparisons to Concepts and Vocabularies of Art Museum Visitors
Martha Kellogg SmithUniversity of Washington, USA
Advances in classification research, Vol. 17: Proceedings of the 17th ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop (Austin, TX, November 4, 2006), ed. Jonathan Furner and Joseph T. Tennis
Why are art museums engaging online users to solicit subject keywords for various works of art? And how successful have they been?
Motivations
• Generate keywords in a cost effective way
• Engage online visitors
• Elicit terms for “subjects” in artworks.
• Closing the “semantic gap” between specialists and casual museum visitors
Challenges
• Specialized art vocabularies• Curatorial experts differ
in opinion on what subject terms to use
• As of 2006, lack of user studies
• How useful is this to the end user?
• Difficulty of convincing art museums that this is a useful practice
Level III : evaluating, explaining, and synthesizing interpretations.
Level II : styles, dates, and original and historical settings and functions
Level I : objects and their parts; concretely observed characteristics
Levels of artwork interpretation and information use
(more) Challenges
• Art historical and foreign language terms
Does asking users to supply Level I type tags help them develop Level II or Level II type knowledge?
• Depth and coverage
• Imprecision, error • Bias
Smith’s conclusion:
“The generation of keywords for populating systems should not inadvertently encourage non-specialist volunteer taggers to interpret keywording activity as somehow what art viewing and meaning making is all about: simply enumerating and listing what they see.”
Exactly how art museums can use online resources to help their users move beyond Level 1 type information is yet to be seen.
Tagging, Folksonomy and Art Museums: Results of steve.museum’s research
Jennifer TrantUniversity of Toronto/Archives & Museum Informatics
Retrieved from http://www.steve.museum/?page_id=7
What has steve.museum demonstrated?
1) Highly specialized and technical language 2) Items could be organized as an exhibition 3) Items could be in a non-contextualized database
Collections made available online, but organized according to the principles of the physical space
The problem: accessibility of art museum collections
• Can give the perspective of the general public
• Accounts for the sometimes subjective nature of art
• Broaden the scope of professional indexing and
cataloguing
The solution: Social Tagging
• Do user tags differ from terms in professional museum documentation?
• Do museum staff find user tags useful for searching art collections?
• Do user tags differ from terms used to search on-line art museum collections?
Research Question: Can Social Tagging and Folksonomy Improve On-line Access to Art Museum Collections?
steve.museum: a research project on social tagging in art museums
• A set of images of works of art to be tagged were selected from existing digital materials
• Each item was accompanied by the following documentation from the museum: Artist (nationality birthdate-deathdate); Title, date; medium, support; dimensions; Acquisition details (accession number)
• The works of art were presented to the user through the steve.museum software, which recorded user data and connects it with the tags the user assigned
• Users could register with the site or access the site and begin tagging without registering
Methodology
• Do museum staff find user tags useful for searching art collections? • 88% of tags considered useful overall• Correlation between usefulness and frequency• Some tags considered useful misperceptions
• Do user tags differ from terms in professional museum documentation? • 86% of user tags not found in museum documentation • 62.8% of distinct tags not found in AAT• 85% of distinct tags not found in ULAN
Results
• Do user tags differ from terms used to search on-line art museum collections? • Search log data was analyzed from the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Only 38.5% and 22.6% matched distinct tags
• Interest in tagging is high – could also lead to increased engagement with museums
• While some correlations were harder to prove than others, including tagging would certainly at least improve recall
Research Question: Can Social Tagging and Folksonomy Improve On-line Access to Art Museum Collections?
Conclusions
L’évaluation
http://tagger.steve.museum/fr/steve/object/1532?offset=
Un contrôle ?
http://tagger.steve.museum/fr/search?query=arbus&limit=12&theme=detail&sort=scored
Indianapolis Museum of Art
http://www.imamuseum.org/page/collection-tags
http://www.imamuseum.org/art/collections/search#search=woman&department=Prints&ade=2000-07&adl=2010-06&tag_facet=woman&limit=15
http://www.imamuseum.org/art/collections/artwork/woman-vase-flowers-davis-harry
Un autre problème
http://www.imamuseum.org/page/collection-tags
Conclusion
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/24