I gave a presentation today, remotely, to the Accessibility Working Group of the Dublin Core Annual Meeting about the work that the steve.museum consortium is doing exploring social tagging and folksonomy in art museums. The podcast is online, here.

The presentations reinforced for me the developing understanding of the nature of public and professional vocabularies, or wild and domesticated metadata and the dangers of presenting these as either/or options. Rather, we should be observing the development of these distinctions, the "lects" that Marc Davis talked about at the WWW2006 tagging workshop in Edinburgh, to see what we can learn about the characteristics of these different groups.

If inclusion, and diversity, are things that we value, then the rationale for such an exercise should be self-evident.

/jt