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Tagged by Ursula Endlicher and Ela Kagel

TAGallery by CONT3XT.NET extends the idea of a tagged exhibition and transfers the main tasks of noncommercial exhibition spaces to the discourse of an electronic data-space. The method of tagging allows the attribution of artworks to different thematic fields. EXHIBITION_003 was tagged/curated by Ursula Endlicher and Ela Kagel, who started the blog Curating NetArt in May 2006 as ongoing conversations about various topics surrounding media arts. Their exhibition " link.of.thought_thought.of.link..." for TAGallery is an extension of this blog in dialogue-form and a meta-curatorial statement of their perspective on the challenges of curating media/net/art.

Exhibition

http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/EXHIBITION_link.of.thought

Curators' dialogue

http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/TEXTS_link.of.thought

Curators' bio/CV

http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/TAGGERS_link.of.thought

Curators' blog

http://curating-netart.blogspot.com

The question of what makes a 'meaningful' number of queries of an on-line resource has been lingering in the back of my mind ever since i did the analysis of the Guggenheim Museum search logs last fall. At issue, really, is how to profile and analyse the long tail of user searching. (There was a D-Lib article about this not long ago, that talks about ways to analyse the nature of the tail.)

What brought this back to mind was a Hitwise Newsletter report that included the following analysis of terms that contain 'summer'.

Search Terms Analysis: Search Analysis- "summer" Search Term Analysis
Most popular keywords containing the term "summer" for the 4 weeks ending 05/19/07

We've now completed Program Committee Review, and are beginning to send out paper acceptances for the upcoming International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting, to be held October 24-26, 2007 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Our thanks, once again, to everyone who proposed. There are always far more good proposals than there are places on the program, and it is always a difficult decision. The input of the Program Committee is invaluable. As well as reviewing submissions, they've helped us define appropriate venues for presentations and have recommended we offer demonstration or briefing slots to some projects that have proposed papers.

Open Call for Participation and/or Papers
CONT3XT.NET #06.07

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[CC] "circulating contexts--curating media/net/art"

1 June - 31 October 2007

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has 'soft launched' a tagging application integrated into their on-line collections catalogue.

A tag cloud -- at http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/socialTagging.html -- shows tags assigned anonymously to the collection (tags don't seem to be linked to users though PMA has a My Museum / Gallery feature). Tags in the cloud are sized by frequency; the sequencing isn't immediately obvious.

Any user can add tags to a work, at the collection record. Tags can also be deleted by any user.

Tags are shown in the cloud immediately [presumably with some sort of filtering].

/jt

Embedded in a piece on 'virtuality and its discontents' by sherry turkle in forbes is the following observation about a visit to the museum with her daughter:

Tagging today and tomorrow

Thomas Vander Wal

Pew study stats on tagging -- 7% of people in the US study daily

history of tagging in keyword description of resources has a long history (lotus notes, compuserv forums, bitsy)

definitions

• personal free tagging of pages for one's own retrieval

object --> interest --> identity

                /                  |

[culture] [definition] [vocabulary]

in the second session of the tagging workshop ...

Emerging Motivations for Tagging: Expression, Performance and Activism

Alla Zollers

http://www2007.org/workshops/paper_55.pdf

Concurrent with the tagging workshop is one on query log analyis. It looks like the papers -- on-line here -- will be helpful in the steve.museum log analysis work (where we look at logs as evidence of the kinds of things that users search for, so that we can assess whether tags could further support access to art museum collections on-line)

jt

Frank Smadja has set up two polls about tagging:

• Motivation poll -- why do you tag?
• The future of tagging -- have we lived up to the buzz?

go to the site and register your opinion. you have to register in order to vote in both polls ;(

/jt

I'm in Banff this week, at the www2007 meeting. i'm on the program committee for the tagging workshop that is taking place today, and will stay for a bit to see what the technical side of the web is thinking. These are my notes from the things that i've attended (or wish i could attend)...

Following up on Brewster's MW2007 keynote, the Internet Archive has planned The Big Crawl, a plan to capture 1 billon web pages in a crawl starting June 1, 2007.

To make sure that your museum site is included, enter your URL as a start page. See http://wa.archive.org/aroundtheworld/index.html for details.

And don't forget to enjoy some time travel on the Wayback Machine!

/jt

Today is the last day for the submission of proposals to participate in the 2007 edition of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings, to be held October 24-26, 2007 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and true to form, proposals are coming in thick and fast.

What is it about this community that makes us so 'just in time?'

Two ladies,

Every year, the community nominates sites to be considered for the Best of the Web awards. Peer nominations (and self-nominations) create a short list of sites that are reviewed by a panel of judges, and winners are chosen in a number of categories.