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Social Tagging and Access to Collections Social Tagging and Access to Collections J. Trant Archives & Museum Informatics [email protected] November 2007 http://www.steve.museum • Access to Collections • Tagging • Research Questions • Steve Tagger • Preliminary Results Social Tagging and Access to Collections http://www.steve.museum access to collections http://www.steve.museum Access to Collections What we say doesn’t match what visitors see http://www.steve.museum Access to Collections only one shark – not the one I remember ... http://www.steve.museum Access to Collections ! shark http://www.steve.museum Access to Collections sharks! http://www.steve.museum reference questions http://www.steve.museum Access to Collections 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? Can they help us answer user queries? http://www.steve.museum Access to Collections Possibly the desired painting http://www.steve.museum Access to Collections What “J. P.” knows: painting Renaissance standing man very well dressed library hourglass table rich colors What J.P. knows ... http://www.steve.museum Access to Collections 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] What a Met Curator knows ... http://www.steve.museum Access to Collections What “J. P.” knows: What a Met curator knows: 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 ... http://www.steve.museum Access to Collections bangs ring bangs beard beard robe border border Renaissancecape cape contemplation contemplation scholarelbow elbow scroll hourglass hourglass time landscape landscape learned trees learned man mountain man moustache mountain nobleman moustache painting nobleman portrait painting ring volunteer supplied tags might help portrait robe Renaissance http://www.steve.museum what is tagging? http://www.steve.museum What is Tagging? Web sites tagged ‘”museum” in del.icio.us http://www.steve.museum What is Tagging? over 2,048,000 images tagged “museum” in flickr.com http://www.steve.museum What is Tagging? “Museum” is one of the most popular tags in flickr http://www.steve.museum What is Tagging? citeUlike.org - organize your academic citations http://www.steve.museum What is Tagging? espgame.org - match your partner’s tags http://www.steve.museum a research project http://www.steve.museum Tagging Objects? user tag object It seems simple ... http://www.steve.museum Tagging Objects? guilded ! animal bejeweled ! antler ! action dog bow !!"#$ user tags object not so simple ... http://www.steve.museum Steve Research Project http://www.steve.museum Steve Research Project 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 assign terms works of art searches of art image terms databases assigned 4 4 multiple museum context are terms works of art applicable to? http://www.steve.museum social tagging and folksonomy analysis Steve Research Project 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 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 Steve Research Project 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 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 http://www.steve.museum Steve Tagger an open source tagger download from http://www.steve.museum http://www.steve.museum Steve Tagger http://www.steve.museum Steve Tagger Tagging works http://www.steve.museum Steve Tagger Show Metadata http://www.steve.museum Steve Tagger Hide Metadata http://www.steve.museum Steve Tagger Showing Tags http://www.steve.museum Steve Tagger Showing sets vs. Random works http://www.steve.museum early results http://www.steve.museum Preliminary Results > 28,492 tags collected so far http://www.steve.museum Preliminary Results ~50% (14,703 terms) don’t match any part of museum documentation http://www.steve.museum Preliminary Results average number of tags per tagger no sets sets 0 1.5 3.0 4.5 6.0 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 http://www.steve.museum Preliminary Results average number of tags per tagger no metadata metadata 0 1.5 3.0 4.5 6.0 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 http://www.steve.museum Preliminary Results !danger !lost at sea x rocky shore !likely to die x dolphins !storm !sharks ?? David Hockney !desperation Taggers supply useful terms http://www.steve.museum Preliminary Results Term Review http://www.steve.museum Preliminary Results Museums could use social tagging : by role 60 50 11 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
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