Today we completed the circle.
We have started presenting the tags that Flickr users have left on our images in the Commons on Flickr in their associated collection records in our online collection database. What this means is that the large number of tags added to our photographic collection in Flickr now are available in our [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Folksonomies'
Re-ingesting Flickr tags from the Commons back into our collection OPAC
July 25th, 2008 5 Comments
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Commons on Flickr – a report, some concepts and a FAQ – the first 3 months from the Powerhouse Museum
July 21st, 2008 9 Comments
The first three months of having images from the Tyrrell Photographic Collection in the Commons on Flickr have been very interesting. We launched on April 8 with 200 images and have been adding more each week since.
At the 12 week mark we had 600 photos uploaded, mostly location photography with just under 50% geocoded. [...]
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Social media marketing in the performing arts
December 19th, 2007 3 Comments
Beth Kanter and Rebecca Krause-Hardie have put together a good primer which appeared in Arts Reach magazine on some of the ways performing arts organisations are using social media to engage with their audiences in new ways.
Two things jumped out immediately. Firstly, that social media has seriously challenged the short-term marketing focus of many of [...]
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Information organisation as a video – the latest from Michael Wesch / KSU
October 21st, 2007 Comments Off
Back in April, Michael Wesch at Kansas State University made a great video about the basic ideas behind Web 2.0. Now he has delivered another video this time looking at information organisation. It opens with a traditional ‘on paper’ view of information in the pre-digital age – library card catalogues, expert taxonomies, and scarcity – [...]
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OPAC2.0 – latest tag statistics and trends for simple comparison with Steve project
October 15th, 2007 1 Comment
Another paper from the Steve researchers has gone online and is generating interesting discussions. It elaborates on the content of an earlier summary podcast. To be presented at ICHIM07 the paper describes some of the emerging patterns in tagging behaviour in the different interface trials.
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Web Directions South 2007 – presentation and some thoughts
October 4th, 2007 Comments Off
Web Directions South 07 was lots of fun and there were some great presentations over the two days. Unfortunately conferences are always full of choices and I missed several presentations I’d been looking forward to catching. That said, overall the quality was high and there were only a handful of dull moments. Most of the [...]
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Steve.museum update as a podcast
September 10th, 2007 2 Comments
I’ve just finished a presentation to art museum folk at the Sites of Communication 3 conference at the National Gallery of Victoria, and true to form there was quite a bit of interest in social tagging. There seems to now be widespread awareness of the problem of the ’semantic gap’ between the language of art [...]
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Word association and tagging games
July 31st, 2007 1 Comment
Human Brain Cloud is a pretty amusing timewaster with a great visualisation interface, and lots of (untapped) potential for tagging applications.
HBC asks everyone online to ‘free associate’ with particular words which then have relationships built between them. Much like what we at the Powerhouse do when we data-mine search terms, HBC is building an enormous [...]
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OPAC2.0 – Go bulk taggers!
July 18th, 2007 Comments Off
Thank you to everyone who has been tagging the collection with our bulk tagging mini-application.
Since announcing it 2 weeks ago we’ve had 515 new tags added to previously untagged objects. That’s a lot.
If you are one of the many who have added some tags – thank you. If you haven’t tried it yet, then what [...]
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