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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

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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. perspectives rather than institutional ones.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s relationship to information and each other. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking. More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny taxonomies.???

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is not a book with pages, but it is about relationships. . Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. The key is the interconnectivity of users - and what can happen when you get connected with people with similar goals. Conclusion.

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