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« FYA*: Little bloopers of content, metadata and evolution || Back to Blog | Google holding the line » January 19, 2006
Jason Toal had a paper accepted for presentation at the IA Summit. It's called "The Life of Tags," (abstract) : "Our paper will pursue potential opportunities for adding a usable layer of rules to the process of tagging." The sorts of rules are like those in cellular automata systems, such as the game of Life. The abstract puts aside using ontologies to disambiguate tags. Sounds interesting. So, the first thing Jason did upon hearing his (their?) paper had been accepted was to set up a blog to work on it in public. I know doing this isn't news, but it still gives me just a smidgeon of hope. What a difference from how research was done ten years ago! By the way, at the blog I found a link to STEVE — Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement — a project developed by a group of museums to enable social filtering of their collections. Jason writes: "Steve is an attempt to democratize a collections catalogue, not by replacing the curators perspective, but by adding an additional layer of information provided by the public." Cool. [Tags: jasonToal iaSummit ia taxonomy EverythingIsMiscellaneous museums cellularAutomata] Posted
by D. Weinberger at January 19, 2006 03:44 PM
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David, I wrote about STEVE about a week ago. You can find an application of it at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Posted by: Larry Irons | January 20, 2006 03:00 PM
Hi David,
just noticed this post, thanks for the link and comments!
I just wanted to mention that this is a collaborative effort, and my collegue Anthony Charles had posted the piece on STEVE. A great find indeed.
We have posted the final paper as it was submitted, and have included some "author info" to the site.
Look forward to seeing you in vancouver!
Posted by: jason | February 3, 2006 05:13 PM