Info-Seeking

dbear — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:18:56 +0000

Type:

Session

Chair:

Paul Marty

Programs:

Scholarly Information Seeking Behaviour in the British Museum Online Collection

Cultural Data Sculpting: Omni-spatial interactive visualization for large scale heterogeneous datasets

Date & Time:

April 7, 2011 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location:

Commonwealth C/D

retrieval

information seeking

information visualization

information seeking behaviour

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

What are they looking for and how can they find it in the universe of things we have? If this was a TV game show, it would be enough to expect someone to guess the words we used to describe something. But if we really want people to find information from – or about – our collections we need to help.

Discovering physical objects: Meeting researchers’ needs

jtrant — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:44:37 +0000

Research Information Network (2008). Discovering physical objects: Meeting researchers’ needs.

Steve.museum: An Ongoing Experiment in Social Tagging, Folksonomy, and Museums

jtrant — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:19:53 +0000

Chun, S., Cherry R., Hiwiller D., Trant J., & Wyman B. (2006). Steve.museum: An Ongoing Experiment in Social Tagging, Folksonomy, and Museums. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2006: Proceedings.

museumsandtheweb.com - retrieval

Info-Seeking

Description

Discovering physical objects: Meeting researchers’ needs

Steve.museum: An Ongoing Experiment in Social Tagging, Folksonomy, and Museums