MW2009 highlights - Day 4

Today, at the Museums and the Web conference, I finally got excited about the possibilities offered by tagging content. Thanks to Steve.

For ages tagging has provoked a big 'so what?' in me. Tag clouds are all very well for showing what everyone is searching for most, but what does that mean (other than other people looked for it too, you're normal...).

So who is Steve? I have yet to discover where the name cam from, but basically the US Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) threw big $$ at The New Media Consortium to fund a project to further develop the Steve tagging application, a tool that simplifies the navigation of online museum collections by allowing viewers to tag an image with descriptive terms.

The team are dynamic and their presentation was provocative and I have a few ideas to test out when I get home...

Posted in Webby stuff on 04/17/09