Hi Cristiano,
Thank you very much for telling us more about the project.
I know that the public can provide helpful data because I was involved in a project to encourage volunteers to provide data, enter descriptive metadata, alongside professionals.
I was so intrigued by the Your Paintings Tagger that, naturally, I had to register to try it out myself. It's very easy to use, apart from when there are multiple choices offered which include 2 or more with essentially the same basic information, but one could be 'more right' than the other. I'm also curious to see how people are encouraged to continue tagging. It began to feel like work to me after a while - but I have spent a lot of time adding metadata describing images to databases over the past 10 years.
I would be extremely interested to see samples, any other info in the future about the project. Cultural heritage image databases are a special interest of mine. I'd love to see how this approach could work with other types of collections.
It looks lovely, seems to work very smoothly, and I really like the connection between objects, public and experts that it makes possible.
Best wishes,
Janet
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