I have no direct experience, but I too would interested to hear from anyone who does. On the one hand, it seems like a cheap way for museums to get subject terms applied to works of art in their collections (either all of them, or some of them - the most popular ones). On the other, I gather that academics are using social tagging to share research papers, etc, held in digital repositories. Is there any overlap in these two applications of folksonomy with implications for museum library practice?
Jonathan
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From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ursula Kolmstetter
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Folksonomy
Dear Arlis/NA friends,
What is the general thinking of folksonomy, which is a form of mostly unstructured, user created metadata? Some museums started using folksonomy (see: steve.museum project). I wondered if anybody has experiences with it.
Best regards,
Ursula Kolmstetter
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