This may be a little off-topic, but there are examples of museums/archives that have used Wikimedia Commons to tag some of their images - e.g. the Bundesarchiv images at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_German_Federal_Archive
have been heavily categorised by Wikimedians into categories for the people, places, etc. in the photographs, as well as having their captions corrected* and translated.
It's obviously of fundamental importance for Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia to have categorized images, so that the appropriate images can easily be found by people reading the Wikipedia articles - I'm less sure how useful it is to the museums, though, where thus far more focus has been put on the description corrections rather than categorisation/tagging.
* See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv/Error_reports
Thanks,
Mike Peel
Wikimedia UK - http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/
On 7 Jul 2011, at 09:07, Paul Groves wrote:
> Hi Linda,
>
> This is also something we're investigating at the moment, however I think if
> user-tagging is to be implemented and done successfully for museum
> collections sites (and accepted by curators...), it needs to be done in a
> thought-through and integrated way and not just as something bolted-on
> without thought. The PCF example Andy gave is a good example of the former
> approach, another example which I believe has been a success is that of
> Brooklyn Museum: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/tags/
>
> Also, not a recent one, but as the Power House museum (
> http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/browsekeywords.php )
> have been supporting user-tagging for years, they probably have some
> interesting metrics on this.
>
> Hope this helps! I'm very interested in this area too, so would be keen to
> swap any information of sites or research that one can learn from.
>
> regards
>
> Paul
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Andy Mabbett <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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>> Hello Linda ;-)
>>
>> One recent example is this:
>>
>> http://tagger.thepcf.org.uk/
>>
>> from the Public Catalogue Foundation.
>>
>> On 6 July 2011 18:21, Linda Ellis <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>> Just trying to pick people's brains....
>>>
>>> Does anybody have any recent good examples of museums / galleries
>> implementing user tagging?
>>>
>>> Would also be interested in whether people think user tagging can be
>> useful or not.
>>
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