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DC 2006 Tags and Metadata Session

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Friday October 6, 14.30 - 16.30 in Manzanillo

Remote participation was welcomed (technology permitting).

Agenda for the session

The aim of the session was to provide a forum for discussion of the relationship between tags and what has traditionally been called metadata. There was a panel of speakers who had some ideas to contribute and everyone was invited to comment and add to the discussion.

Panel

The panel members were Seth van Hooland, Jonathan O'Donnell, Jennifer Trant, Stuart Weibel and Eric Childress. Seth talked about the ideas in "From spectator to annotator: possibilities offered by user generated metadata for image databases in the cultural heritage sector" presented at the CILIP2006 conference (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG-2006/). You can read the paper on http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/usergeneratedmetadata.pdf and hear him at seth.mp3

Jonathan contributed the ideas in 'wild metadata' < http://purl.nla.gov.au/net/jod/tutorial/wild-metadata.html >. He developed a little demonstration that can be used to play with this idea. If you type in the URL of a page, you will get back some tags, some descriptions and some anchor text. < http://dappit.com/services/wild_metadata > It works best with home page URLs.

Jennifer contributed ideas drawn from the experience of steve.museum project (http://www.steve.museum) exploring social tagging and folksonomy in art museums. Podcast available at http://www.archimuse.com/research/socialTaggingAndFolksonomyInArtMuseums_steve.museum.m4a For further reading, you can try:

J. Trant. "Exploring the potential for social tagging and folksonomy in art museums: proof of concept". A paper for the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. [PDF Preprint] http://www.steve.museum/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=35&id=37 Jennifer Trant and Bruce Wyman. "Investigating social tagging and folksonomy in art museums with steve.museum". A paper for the Tagging Workshop, World Wide Web 2006. Edinburgh, Scotland. May 22, 2006. [PDF Preprint] http://www.steve.museum/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=35&id=32 Susan Chun, Rich Cherry, Doug Hiwiller, Jennifer Trant, and Bruce Wyman. "Steve.museum: An Ongoing Experiment in Social Tagging, Folksonomy, and Museums". Museums and the Web 2006. Albuquerque, March 22-25, 2006. http://www.steve.museum/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=35&id=33 David Bearman and Jennifer Trant. "Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement: Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections". D-Lib Magazine, September 2005, Volume 11 Number 9. http://www.steve.museum/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=35&id=15 Stu and Eric and Corey had some surprises for us!

We did not know about this: Pete Johnston's 'dctagged' suggestion at http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2006/10/dctagged.html

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