tagging the Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection

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tag cloud from PMA tagger

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has 'soft launched' a tagging application integrated into their on-line collections catalogue.

A tag cloud -- at http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/socialTagging.html -- shows tags assigned anonymously to the collection (tags don't seem to be linked to users though PMA has a My Museum / Gallery feature). Tags in the cloud are sized by frequency; the sequencing isn't immediately obvious.

Any user can add tags to a work, at the collection record. Tags can also be deleted by any user.

add tags to a work from the PMA collection

Tags are shown in the cloud immediately [presumably with some sort of filtering].

/jt

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Other Museums?

For a research paper on social tagging and museums, I am trying to compile a list of individual museums with applications that allow visitors to tag image collections on their websites.

I am aware of the following:

Brooklyn Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art - can suggest tags
McCord Museum - tagging "game"

Are there others?

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tags no longer immediately displayed?

i was back checking on the PMA's tagging application and noticed that new tags are no longer being displayed immediately, though deletes do take place as soon as you confirm.

/jt

j. trant archives & museum informatics www.archimuse.com

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Not sure why it did not work

Not sure why it did not work for you, but the tags do display immediately.

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