Due to some scheduling conflicts at Museums and the Web this year we missed the workshop about STEVE, a tagging project for art museums, or to expand the acronymn, Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement. I’ve been scrounging around on the internet for notes on the presentation. All I found was this mention on the Powerhouse museum’s blog fresh + new. Luckily Gnter posted a more complete set of notes earlier this year and there are two papers one on the project, one from D-Lib Magazine and one on the conference site
I does sound like a road we’ve been down before with the Word Association feature on our collection. Although that project was ahead of it’s time it remains sadly underused, for a variety of reasons. The STEVE project sounds like it has some real momentum and worth the extra reading, I’m sure you’ll see more on it here.
Edit:
Although the acronym mentioned above is fascinating, it is not official. The project itself remains officially acronym free.
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