Slides from the 4/8/10 AdobeConnect session for the Cataloguing Museum Collections course.

1. Cataloguing Museum Collections History, Trends, and Issues Susan Chun JHU Museum Studies Spring 2010

5. Why social tagging?

8. From: J. P. xxxxxx@xxxxxx.com Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:24:43 -0700 To: timeline@metmuseum.org Subject: Looking for a painting Please help: I have been looking on and off for years for this painting. The painting is of a very well dressed renaissance man standing in a room (a library) in front of him on a table is a large hour glass. The painting has very rich colors. I have talked to a lot of people and they have said they have seen this painting but can't remember its name or the name of the artist. Could you please use your resources to find this painting?

10. What “J. P.” knows: painting Renaissance standing man very well dressed library hourglass table rich colors What a Met curator knows: Portrait of a Man , ca. 1520–25 Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) (Italian, Brescian, born about 1498, died 1554) Oil on canvas; 34 1/4 x 32 in. (87 x 81.3 cm) Rogers Fund, 1928 (28.79) Provenance: Maffei, Brescia (by 1760, as "Ritratto d'uomo con carta in mano, ed Orologio, di Callisto da Lodi"); by descent to contessa Beatrice Erizzo Maffei Fenaroli Avogadro, Palazzo Fenaroli, Brescia (by 1853–at least 1857, as by Moretto); her daughter, contessa Maria Livia Fenaroli Avogadro, later marchesa Fassati, Brescia (in 1862); her son, marchese Ippolito Fassati, Milan (by 1878–at least 1912); [Elia Volpi, Florence, by 1915–16; sold to Knoedler]; [Knoedler, New York, 1916–28; sold to MMA]

11. What “J. P.” knows: painting Renaissance standing man very well dressed library hourglass table rich colors What a Met curator knows: Portrait of a Man , ca. 1520–25 Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) (Italian, Brescian, born about 1498, died 1554) Oil on canvas; 34 1/4 x 32 in. (87 x 81.3 cm) Rogers Fund, 1928 (28.79) Provenance: Maffei, Brescia (by 1760, as "Ritratto d'uomo con carta in mano, ed Orologio, di Callisto da Lodi"); by descent to contessa Beatrice Erizzo Maffei Fenaroli Avogadro, Palazzo Fenaroli, Brescia (by 1853–at least 1857, as by Moretto); her daughter, contessa Maria Livia Fenaroli Avogadro, later marchesa Fassati, Brescia (in 1862); her son, marchese Ippolito Fassati, Milan (by 1878–at least 1912); [Elia Volpi, Florence, by 1915–16; sold to Knoedler]; [Knoedler, New York, 1916–28; sold to MMA]

13. Iconography Colors Emotions Styles Concepts . . . and foreign language terms

16. 353 results for “desolation”

17. 2 results for “happiness”

24. http://www.steve.museum

26. The steve tagger: an open-source configurable tagging tool

29. The steve term review tool: to review, annotate, and manage tags

30. The reporting suite: supports the review and analysis of research data

31. steve’s 2006-08 Research Results

34. Tags could improve searching Tags Submitted: 20th century, baked goods, balanced, balancing, cake , cake stand, cakes , cherry on top, coconut cake, cream filling, dessert, desserts, food, frosting, genoise, lemon merangue, Lollypop shadows, painting , pie, plates, portrait, shadow, shadows, simple, tall stands, Thiebaud , three, trio, white background Wayne Thiebaud (1920-1963) Display Cakes , 1963 Collection SFMOMA In this example, only four user-contributed terms appear in the online search database

35. Tags are almost always useful when they are assigned two or more times.

41. What are taggers telling us?

42. The works may evoke strong emotions Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm Tag: piece of sh*t

43. They interpret differently Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream Tags: sharks, dolphins, rocky shore

44. They make private associations John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Paul Revere Tag: Jack Black

45. They make private associations

46. They have complex ideas to express 20% of all tags contributed were multi-word terms. Raghubir Singh Bazaar Through Glass Door, Bombay Tags: modern India, old meets new, red shopping bag, defining moment

47. They are not malicious Only 14 of all tags matched the steve “blacklist” of profane terms.

50. Cons (some others): Ambiguity

56. Exciting possibilities: multilingual access

57. Exciting possibilities: recommender systems

58. Questions?