Social Tagging and Folksonomy: Steve - Museum and Access To Art

Social Tagging and Folksonomy:
steve.museum and
Access to Art
www.steve.museum steve@steve.museum
Why Tag in Art Museums?
Impressionism
Really Well, Really Wrong

Accessibility & Engagement

An Open Source Project
Jump in
steve has landed
We’ve done stuff

Why a research project?
A Research Project
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user tags object
Why Tag?
Total Terms: 340

Unique Terms: 117
Appropriate Terms: 107
Blue Terms found in Object Data

Total Terms: 40
Unique Terms: 8
Useful? 92.5% new terms

A Research Project
social tagging and folksonomy analysis
social tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources
who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known

how many terms? are assigned? or needed content?
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terms
museum
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Art and
Architecture
how does users' are the same Thesaurus
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found in?
Union List
of Artists
Names
terms (ULAN)
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art image
terms databases
assigned 4
4
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are terms
works of art
applicable to?
A Research Project
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A Research Project

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terms
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terms
museum
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Art and
Architecture
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? terms used? are terms (AAT)
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Union List
of Artists
Names
terms (ULAN)
assigned 3
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terms databases
assigned 4
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are terms
works of art
applicable to?
Exploring the nature of tags: are tags real words?

A Research Project
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Architecture
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Union List
of Artists
Names
terms (ULAN)
assigned 3
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art image
terms databases
assigned 4
are terms
works of art
applicable to?
Exploring the nature of tags: are they terms we use?

A Research Project
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ocial tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources

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terms works of art
terms
museum
assigned 2
records
Art and
Architecture
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found in?
Union List
of Artists
Names
terms (ULAN)
assigned 3
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terms databases
assigned 4
are terms
works of art
applicable to?
Exploring the nature of tags: are they terms from our discipline?
A Research Project
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tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources

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are terms
works of art
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Exploring the nature of tags: are they appropriate to the work?

Inform development
and deployment
of tagging tools
steve.museum
sf.net/projects/steve-museum
Web Technologies
# PHP 5.1
# MySQL 4 or 5
# Apache or IIS
# Unix (Linux/OS X) or Windows
Installing steve
Installing steve
steve installed .... in the amount of time

it took me to tell you about it
steve Admin
Release Process
# Short time boxes
# Developers select files to add
# Package built, sent to SourceForge
# Test team run through scripted scenarios
# Bug reporting and tracking
steve Application Architecture
What Can I do with !
What Can I Do With
# Golly… steve looks like a great piece of software…
# It’s great that it’s open source, but…
# How on earth can I make use of this thing?
What Can I Do With

# Build Tools…
# The steve tagger
interface is one example
of a tool built using the
steve APIs
What is an API?
# Application Programming Interface
# The set of commands programmers use to talk to each
other’s software
# This enables a programmer to use this software w/o
having to know how it works!
is a Black Box…
API
steve
is a Black Box…
addImage()
createImageSet()
API getAllImagesets()
addTerm()
getDocumentFrequency()
getTermCount()
getAllImages()
steve getAllImagesInImageset()
getImageInImageset()
getImagesByKeyword()
getImagesByTermName()
# The steve API is simply a set of questions you can

ask steve
# We can use these commands to build a variety of
powerful tools!
steve Web Services
Backend @ steve.museum Interface @ yourmuseum.com
WS API
steve
Tag Cloud in 5 lines…
require_once('steve_client.php');
$terms = $Term->getTermFrequency(0);
sort($terms);
foreach ($terms as $term) {

echo "<font size='+{$term->freq}'>{$term->term}
<font> \n";
}
WARNING: Technical Details…

(for those who care)
# PHP5 object interfaces for clients hosted on the steve

server
# For remote clients:
# SOAP WSDL’s are auto-generated from API
# REST / URL-based interface
# Initial tests tell us that this should work for clients

written in:
# php, Flash, .NET, Javascript
# Future:
# A more robust and integrated testing scheme
Prototype Explorer
Data Analysis for

# A wide variety of data
analysis can be
accomplished without
touching the DB
# We need to backup our

claim that folksonomy by
providing good data
Novel Interfaces for
Novel Interfaces for

# Pretty slide
# No “real”
application
# Yet…
Get involved with steve
Do-It-Yourself
# Install it
# Try it out
# Read about it
# Talk about it
Install
# Installation requirements are very light
# Changing the look is easy
# Installer and Install Guide download on Sourceforge
Feel free to install on

# That extra server you just retired
# A $6.95/month Web hosting provider
# Your desktop, even
# There are one-stop, combined downloads of all the
software you need to run steve, and it will run on
every OS
Changing the look is easy
# Design is pure standards-based CSS
# To change the look, just make a new style sheet
# Let’s check out some interfaces
Changing the look is easy II
# Those are just new templates for the same basic page
# You can make a completely new interface, like in Rob’s
example, with the API
Try out
# Give the demo tagger a try on the public site, http://
steve.museum (click “Tag Art”)
Read about
# http://steve.museum
# Intro to the project
# Info for museums, researchers, and developers
# Reference section with papers, conference
presentations, dev specs …
Talk about
# discuss list for general discussion about steve and
museum tagging, more broadly
# steve.tech list for tech concerns, installation help, etc.
# Subscription links on http://steve.museum/
fini.
steve@steve.museum

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Social Tagging and Folksonomy:

Why Tag in Art Museums?

Really Well, Really Wrong

Why Tag in Art Museums?

Accessibility & Engagement

steve has landed

We’ve done stuff

user tags object

Total Terms: 340

Blue Terms found in Object Data

Useful? 92.5% new terms

social tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources

who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known

social tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources

who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known

single museum context

how does users'

What do taggers do?

cial tagging and folksonomy analysis

who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known

how does users'

How do tags vary?

g environment folksonomy vocabulary sources

signs what kinds of terms do terms represent known

works of art searches of

Exploring the nature of tags: are tags real words?

cial tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources

who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known

Exploring the nature of tags: are they terms we use?

ocial tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources

who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known

tagging environment folksonomy vocabulary sources

who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known

Exploring the nature of tags: are they terms searchers use?

who assigns what kinds of terms do terms represent known

Exploring the nature of tags: are they appropriate to the work?

steve installed .... in the amount of time

What Can I do with !

What Can I Do With

# The steve API is simply a set of questions you can

steve Web Services

Backend @ steve.museum Interface @ yourmuseum.com

foreach ($terms as $term) {

WARNING: Technical Details…

# PHP5 object interfaces for clients hosted on the steve

# Initial tests tell us that this should work for clients

Data Analysis for

# We need to backup our

Novel Interfaces for

Feel free to install on

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