Social Tagging and Access to Collections
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November 2007
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Social Tagging and Access to Collections
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What we say doesn’t match what visitors see
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only one shark – not the one I remember ...
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From: J. P. [email protected] Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:24:43 -0700 To: [email protected] Subject: Looking for a painting
Please help:
I have been looking on and off for years for this painting. The painting is of a very well dressed renaissance man standing in a room (a library) in front of him on a table is a large hour glass. The painting has very rich colors. I have talked to a lot of people and they have said they have seen this painting but can't remember its name or the name of the artist.
Could you please use your resources to find this painting?
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Possibly the desired painting
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What “J. P.” knows: painting Renaissance standing man very well dressed library hourglass table rich colors
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Portrait of a Man, ca. 1520–25 Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) (Italian, Brescian, born about 1498, died 1554) Oil on canvas; 34 1/4 x 32 in. (87 x 81.3 cm) Rogers Fund, 1928 (28.79)
Provenance: Maffei, Brescia (by 1760, as "Ritratto d'uomo con carta in mano, ed Orologio, di Callisto da Lodi"); by descent to contessa Beatrice Erizzo Maffei Fenaroli Avogadro, Palazzo Fenaroli, Brescia (by 1853–at least 1857, as by Moretto); her daughter, contessa Maria Livia Fenaroli Avogadro, later marchesa Fassati, Brescia (in 1862); her son, marchese Ippolito Fassati, Milan (by 1878–at least 1912); [Elia Volpi, Florence, by 1915–16; sold to Knoedler]; [Knoedler, New York, 1916–28; sold to MMA]
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Portrait of a Man, ca. 1520–25 painting Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) Renaissance (Italian, Brescian, born about 1498, died 1554) Oil on canvas; 34 1/4 x 32 in. (87 x 81.3 cm) standing Rogers Fund, 1928 (28.79) man Provenance: Maffei, Brescia (by 1760, as "Ritratto very well dressed d'uomo con carta in mano, ed Orologio, di library Callisto da Lodi"); by descent to contessa Beatrice Erizzo Maffei Fenaroli Avogadro, hourglass Palazzo Fenaroli, Brescia (by 1853–at least 1857, table as by Moretto); her daughter, contessa Maria Livia Fenaroli Avogadro, later marchesa Fassati, rich colors Brescia (in 1862); her son, marchese Ippolito Fassati, Milan (by 1878–at least 1912); [Elia Volpi, Florence, by 1915–16; sold to Knoedler]; [Knoedler, New York, 1916–28; sold to MMA] What they both know ...
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Web sites tagged ‘”museum” in del.icio.us
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over 2,048,000 images tagged “museum” in flickr.com
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“Museum” is one of the most popular tags in flickr
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social tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources
who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known how many terms? are assigned? or needed content?
terms 1 assigned 1 wordNet assign terms works of art
terms museum assigned 2 2 records single museum context Art and Architecture how does users' are the same Thesaurus tagging differ? terms used? are terms (AAT) found in? Union List of Artists Names terms (ULAN) assigned 3 3 assign terms works of art searches of art image terms databases assigned 4 4 multiple museum context
are terms works of art applicable to?
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who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known how many terms? are assigned? or needed content?
terms 1 assigned 1 wordNet assign terms works of art
terms museum assigned 2 2 records single museum context Art and Architecture how does users' are the same Thesaurus tagging differ? terms used? are terms (AAT) found in? Union List of Artists Names Research Agenda: Tagging Environment terms (ULAN) assigned 3 3 assign terms workshttp://www of art .steve.museum searches of art image terms databases assigned 4 4 multiple museum context
are terms works of art applicable to? social tagging and folksonomy analysis
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who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known how many terms? are assigned? or needed content?
terms 1 assigned 1 wordNet assign terms works of art
terms museum assigned 2 2 records single museum context Art and Architecture how does users' are the same Thesaurus tagging differ? terms used? are terms (AAT) found in? Union List Research Agenda: Folksonomy of Artists Names terms (ULAN) assigned 3 3 http://www.steve.museum assign terms works of art searches of art image terms databases assigned 4 4 multiple museum context
are terms works of art applicable to? social tagging and folksonomy analysis social tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known how many terms? are assigned? or needed content? Steve Research Project
terms 1 assigned 1 wordNet assign terms works of art
terms museum assigned 2 2 records single museum context Art and Architecture how does users' are the same Thesaurus tagging differ? terms used? are terms (AAT) found in? Union List of Artists Names terms (ULAN) assigned 3 3 assign terms works of art searches of art image terms databases assigned 4 4 multiple museum context Research Agenda: Vocabulary Sources are terms works of art applicable to? http://www.steve.museum social tagging and folksonomy analysis social tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known how many terms? are assigned? or needed content?
terms 1 assigned 1 wordNet assign terms works of art terms museum assigned 2 2 records single museum context Art and Architecture how does users' are the same Thesaurus tagging differ? terms used? are terms (AAT) found in? Union List of Artists Names terms (ULAN) assigned 3 3 Steve Research Project assign terms works of art searches of art image terms databases assigned 4 4 multiple museum context
are terms works of art applicable to?
Research Agenda: Works of Art
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Tagging works
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Show Metadata
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Showing Tags
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Showing sets vs. Random works
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> 28,492 tags collected so far
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~50% (14,703 terms) don’t match any part of museum documentation
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average number of tags per tagger
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sets
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Term Set 1: Taggers are supplying far more tags with sets (6317 | 5.8 avg per user) than no sets (3882 | 4.6 per user). Term Set 1: sets vs. random
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metadata
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Term Set 1: Taggers are supplying more tags without metadata (avg 5.75) than with metadata (avg 4.5). Term Set 1: metadata vs. no metadata
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!danger !lost at sea x rocky shore !likely to die x dolphins !storm !sharks ?? David Hockney !desperation Taggers supply useful terms
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Term Review
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Museums could use social tagging : by role
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40 Collections Information/Management 6 6 Curatorial Education/Exhibitions/Publications Library 30 6 Management/Executive 10 1 Operations and Administration Technology 7 number of respondents 3 3 11 no response 20 2 2 4 4 4 1 2 1 4 1 2 6 10 3 3 1 2 5 1 2 13 12 8 6 1 5 5 4 1 0 strongly agree somewhat somewhat disagree strongly don't know no response agree agree disagree disagree level of agreement
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Visitor Interests
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Visitor Feedback
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Visitor Engagement
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“our catalogues may be out of date before they have left the press”, 1910
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Edward Hicks (American, 1780–1849), Peaceable Kingdom, ca. 1830–32 Oil on canvas; 17 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (45.4 x 60.6 cm) Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1970 (1970.283.1) The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Co-existence
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