What interests me about folksonomy (which always sounds like something by
Pete Seeger) is that in a way it shows how far the structured LC headings
are from the way users actually search for or think about [art]. I worked
with Margaret DePopolo of MIT when she was still at Yale as she put
hundreds of x-refs into our card catalog, from the terms used by REAL city
planners to the terms used by LC, because our architecture and planning
clients couldn't deal with LC's 19th-century mindset.
The folksonomy terms can get pretty far out and personal, and obviously,
like Wiki, are subject to mis-use or mis-definition, with no master list
or rules. In a way they're like the keyword lists some groups of us were
trying to agree on for searching terms back when VRMS was around, each of
us had a preference (term, format, etc.). But I suspect interactive
museum programs would/could/should take note of this user-based approach.
Just thoughts,
Helen Chillman
Yale University
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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?
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> Jonathan
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> 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.
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> Ursula Kolmstetter
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