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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community.

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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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New Feature! and the Taxonomy of the Museum 2.0 Collection

Museum 2.0

Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 Are you interested in reading posts about case studies at other institutions or learning about tools you can try out yourself? spirit) that is driven by your interests and site use. The answer for all of us is yes, no, and primarily "it depends."

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Tagging is not only a tool for archiving and locating online resources, it can also be used to collaborate with your volunteers and other like-minded organizations and even for fundraising. What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection?

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s a folksonomy. Set up everyone with a bookmarklet tool and show them how to use it. The most difficult part will be to switch from your habit of using the browser favorites list to the bookmarklet tool. Next cut and paste the URL into the Feedburner tool and follow the instructions. Tagging in Art Museums.