Outline:

1) Exercise (El Greco) - r

2) State the problem - b

People can’t find squat

Don’t have the background (art or searching)

3) How museums catalog right now (include some examples) - b

4) Definitions – three - m

5) Benefits and drawbacks of folksonomy - m

6) Steve.museum (only as an example) - b

7) ARTstor and image collections in general - r

8) Flash of community built on flickr maybe lead into an example of art students (PhD) - r

9) Vision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - all

2) State the problem - b

People can’t find squat

Don’t have the background (art or searching)

3) How museums catalog right now (include some examples) - b

6) Steve.museum (only as an example) - b

9) Vision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - all

2. The Problem with Digital Image Cataloging

a. You cannot find what you are looking for unless you know the title or artist.

ex. The Frick collection

3. Museum Cataloging

a. Museum catalogs are based around professionally executed catalog records that may be very accurate, and may reflect years of provenance research, but they are searchable only by people who know the collection and the catalog very well.

ex. The Frick

b. Museum catalogs would be more useful to a general audience if they included more keywords.

ex. The Guggenheim

• The Guggenheim has recognized this deficiency and has expanded their search of the catalog record to include the paragraph descriptions of each item. While this is not perfect, you can roll the dice and maybe find the painting you are looking for if the keywords you use happen to be used in the description. The Guggenheim's catalog is much better then the Frick's because it contains more keywords.

• However, no image catalogs are deliberately including keywords that make sense to the public.

c. One way of collecting keywords that are useful to the public is through the process of Tagging.

6. Current Uses of Tagging in Digital Image Collections

a. Steve.museum

7. Vision

If ARTstor were free, and people could tag their images, and make personal image collections like on flickr, and share them with other art grad students, this could be a revolutionary thing for art education.