Museums and the Web
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Tagging
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April 7, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914
Description
Words, words, words. Whose words, why words, how words? Tags are just language but who assigns them, how and where, in in what relations to existing description is all critical to understanding, and ultimately to using, tags. In this session tagging discussion advances from art to science.
Comments
by Roger Bruce - Mar 17 2011 - 1:25pm
Tagging Tags
A wonderful crew here.
I am curious about developments in the ingestion of audience-sourced/folksonomic tags. It seems that each month brings new possibilities for (at least in theory) the capture of useful metadata as user-provided terms are harvested. For example, through the use of location aware mobile apps.
Roger Bruce