steve: exploring folksonomy in the art museum

We worked with a group of art museums exploring social tagging and folksonomy in art museums. Full details of this project were on its Web site: steve.museum

Our contributions include:

• Final Research Report:
  J. Trant, Tagging, Folksonomy and Art Museums: Results of steve.museum’s research, full text available from http://conference.archimuse.com/jtrants/stevemuseum_research_report_available
• J Trant. Tagging, Folksonomy and Art Museums: Early Experiments and Ongoing Research, Journal of Digital Information, Vol 10, No 1 (2009) available at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/270/277
• J Trant, Studying Social Tagging and Folksonomy: A Review and Framework, Journal of Digital Information, Vol 10, No 1 (2009) available at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/269/278
• Jennifer Trant presented at Should You Care about Social Tagging? – Findings and Recommendations from steve.museum, Museum Computer Network, November 14, 2008, blog entry and presentation slides: http://conference.archimuse.com/blog/jtrant/upcoming_presentation_ stevemuseum_research_resul
• Jennifer Trant gave a keynote address at the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Annual Meeting, September 23, 2008 in Berlin, Germany. See the blog entry and presentation slides: http://conference.archimuse.com/blog/jtrant/tagging_and_folksonomy_keynote_dc2008
• Jennifer Trant and David Bearman participated in the Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems and Services (NKOS) Workshop on 19 September 2008 during the European Digital Libraries Meeting. Blog entry and presentation slides: http://conference.archimuse.com/blog/jtrant/stevemuseum_public_and_professional_vocabularies
• Jennifer Trant presented at the NDAP International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, March 20, 2008, on "Social Tagging Museums: Research and Reflections". Presentation Slides [pdf].
• Jennifer Trant presented on steve.museum at the Museum Computer Network in Chicago, November 9, 2007.
• J. Trant, Social Tagging and Access to Collections, a presentation for the International Seminar Electronic Documents: Management and Preservation, November 6, 2007, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
  • Podcast: 23:39 min. High Quality [34.2 MB]
  • Podcast: 23:39 min. Low Quality [11.3 MB]
  • Presentation Slides [PDF - 11.1 MB]
• Trant, J., D. Bearman and S. Chun, The eye of the beholder: steve.museum and social tagging of museum collections, in International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM07): Proceedings, J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. 2007. Published September 30, 2007 at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/papers/trant/trant.html
• J.Trant, Tagging and Folksonomy: Improved access to art? a steve update, for the Dublin Core Annual Meeting in Singapore, August 2007: download the podcast.
• D. Bearman and J. Trant hosted the steve.museum summer meeting on Grindstone Island.
• Data collection launched for Term Set 2. See blog post.
• J. Trant released a draft of a search log analysis study, looking at a year's worth of data form the Guggenheim Collection on-line. See her blog post for a summary and a link to a draft of the paper.
• J. Trant participated in a session on steve.museum at the Museum Computer Network, November 9, 2006 [pdf of presentation slides]
• J. Trant. Social Classification and Folksonomy in Art Museums: early data from the steve.museum tagger prototype, a paper and presentation for the ASIST SIG-CR workshop on Social Classification, November 4, 2006. [pdf preprint] [pdf of presentation slides]
• J. Trant wrote the successful proposal for steve.museum National Leadership Grant, from the Institute of Museum and Library Services of the US Government to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. See announcement. Narrative used as an example on the IMLS web site. Now only available from Internet Archive.
• J. Trant. Social Tagging and Folksonomy in Art Museums: steve.museum. a presentation to the Accessibility Working Group, Dublin Core Annual Meeting, October 5, 2006. Download podcast.
• J. Trant (2006), "Exploring the potential for social tagging and folksonomy in art museums: proof of concept", New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Volume 12, Number 1 / June 2006, 83 - 105. PDF Preprint.
• J. Trant and B. Wyman (2006). 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.
• folksonomy and the art museum: introducing and proving the concepts behind steve.museum, A workshop at AAM, Friday April 28, 2006.
• Susan Chun, Rich Cherry, Doug Hiwiller, Jennifer Trant, and Bruce Wyman (2006). Steve.museum: An Ongoing Experiment in Social Tagging, Folksonomy, and Museums, Museums and the Web 2006, Albuquerque, March 22-25, 2006. paper on-line
• David Bearman and Jennifer Trant (2005). “Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement: Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections” D-Lib Magazine, September 2005, Volume 11, Number 9 Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/bearman/09bearman.html
• Authoring a number of the project documents: see http://www.steve.museum/
  [local versions of some files below]
  • Cataloguing by Crowd, Research Questions: A Summary of Issues Raised in Discussion
    Summary Working Group report from 2005 Steering Committee meeting at Grindstone Island, July 19-24. [PDF]
  • Cataloguing by Crowd, Issues In Term Analysis
    Working Group report from 2005 Steering Committee meeting at Grindstone Island, July 19-24. [PDF]
  • Cataloguing by Crowd Working Group and D. Bearman (2005). A Matrix of Environmental Variables to be Tested in a Museum-Based Folksonomic Tool, Updated: July 2005. Originally Available: <http://www.steve.museum/reference/CCA-environmentMatrix20050.pdf>, Consulted: August 24, 2005. [PDF]
  • Cataloging by Crowd Working Group and T. Leonhardt (July 2005). Community Cataloguing Application, Description of V1.0 Prototype, Updated: July 2005. Orignally Available: <http://www.steve.museum/reference/CCA-PrototypeLeonhardt200507.pdf>. Consulted: August 24, 2005. [PDF]
  • Cataloguing by Crowd Working Group (2005a). Cyber-Cataloguer: Front End Functionality, Updated: July 2005. Originally Available: <http://www.steve.museum/reference/CybercataloguerFR-2.pdf>. Consulted: August 25, 2005. [PDF]
  • Cataloguing by Crowd Working Group (2005b). "Front End" Working Group Report. Originally Available: <http://www.steve.museum/reference/ComCatFrontEnd050720.pdf>. [PDF]
  • Cataloguing by Crowd Working Group and D. Hiwiller (2005). "Back End" Working Group Report 2, Updated: July 2005. Originally Available: <http://www.steve.museum/reference/ComCatBackEnd050722.pdf>. Consulted: August 25, 2005. [PDF]
  • Cataloguing by Crowd Working Group and M. Jenkins (2005). "Back End" Working Group Report -1, Updated: July 2005. Originally Available: <http://www.steve.museum/reference/ComCatBackEnd050720.pdf>. Consulted: August 25, 2005. [PDF]