Spectator becomes annotator : possibilities offered by user-generated metadata for image databases

van Hooland, Seth Spectator becomes annotator : possibilities offered by user-generated metadata for image databases., 2006 . In CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group Annual Conference, Norwich (United Kingdom), 13-15 September 2006. (In Press) [Conference paper]

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The changing role of the user, that gradually shifts from a passive consumer of information towards a pro-active user that reorganises and manipulates data, has an increasing impact on traditional information retrieval. A multitude of practical and methodic questions rise as popular web-applications such as blogs, RSS and social bookmarking tools allow users to create and share metadata about online resources. This article tackles these issues in the particular domain of visual cultural heritage. Online image databases increasingly offer users possibilities to annotate and comment on images of interest to them. But what is the pertinence of these user contributions? How can their quality be evaluated? Concretely, our article starts with an introduction to the phenomenon of user-generated metadata by presenting the social tagging of cultural heritage images and the practice of publishing users’ comments. Secondly, a case study presents an analysis of users’ comments within the image database of the National Archives of the Netherlands. Based on these empirical data, conclusions and generalizations outside our specific case study are formulated.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: image metadata, digital cultural heritage, tagging, folksonomies
Subjects: H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HL. Databases and database Networking.
I. Information treatment for information services > IC. Index languages, processes and schemes.
I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HH. Audio-visual, Multimedia.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JG. Digitization.
Depositing user: Seth van Hooland
Date deposited: 06 Sep 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:04
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8080

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