Once again, it was down to the wire for proposals for Museums and the Web 2009. If we didn't know you better, we'd be worried that we wouldn't have a program, but, true to form, the MW community came through, with most of your 150+ proposals arriving right before the deadline. That's in the last 24 hours before the deadline ... and in the 12 hours after the deadline here, when it still wasn't the deadline where you are ...

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Don't miss this great chance to present your best work at the only international conference devoted to culture, heritage, art, and science on-line: Museums and the Web. MW2009 will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA,  April 15-18, 2009.

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i gave a keynote this morning at the Dublin Core Metadata Meeting - DC2008 on access to art museums on-line: a role for social tagging and folksonomy? that reports on more of the steve.museum tagging data analysis. this talk built on what i reported at NKOS last week [steve.museum: public and professional vocabularies. presentation @ NKOS 2008] and extended it to include some thoughts on user-generated metadata – useful in the context of DC, which began its life as a format for encoding user-created metadata – and a bit of work about the relationships between tags and search logs.

my slides are here (without some of the funky builds).

while we'd hypothesized that there might be a tight relationship between tags and search terms, what we found was a much looser coupling. whether this is a self-fulilling prophesy – because searches on the kinds of subject and genre terms that they use to tag fail, people don't use them – or because description and retrieval vocabularies vary at some other level still needs some thought. that's what the examples we looked at seemed to indicate, and a place i'll be looking further.

CHArt TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Seeing…Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture

Thursday 6 - Friday 7 November 2008

The Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London, WC1 7HX.

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