Blunt answer - it's huge, and it's probably going to change user access
in a profound way. To get a sense of what is going on with it, everyone
should try out FLICKR and DEL.ICOU.US, where you can experience tagging,
clouds, visually weighted popularity, etc. DEL.ICOU.US is particularly
interesting because when you select a url to be posted to your cache of
urls, you can supply your own tags, with visual cues to show you what
you've used before, but you can also see what others have used to tag
this same item. Tagging is about what makes sense to the user, not
what correct or established. It's effective, fun, and rather liberating.
You can see another example of this sort of tagging in the Bridgeman
Archive via the Dictionary of Art. These are indexer, rather than user
supplied, terms, and clearly show the difference between tagging and
formal subject indexing.
There is also a debate going on among VRA Core 4.0 users as to where to
put tags like this, whether they are a form of description, or deserving
of a field of their own.
Google also now has a "Image Labeller" game that is rather like the
museum-sponsored STEVE project. Both suffer from a lack of images
large enough to see what you are trying to tag, but the experience is an
interesting one.
www.flickr.com <http://www.flickr.com/>
www.del.icou.us.com <http://www.del.icou.us.com/>
Eileen Fry
Indiana University
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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
Ursula Kolmstetter
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