Selected Articles and Websites
Articles
Arenson, K. (2006, August 20). "For art history scholars, illumination is a click away." The New York Times. Retrieved November 20, 2006, from http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=FB0D11FF3E5B0C778DDDA10894DC404482 (This article is only accessible to subscribers of TimesSelect.)
• A business article about the creation of Artstor and the reasons why it is necessary in the first place.
Bearman, David and Jennifer Trant. Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement: Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections. D-Lib Magazine, September 2005, Volume 11 Number 9.http://steve.museum/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=35&id=15
Benedetti, S., et al. (2004). "Art in a medium-sized university library: acquisition, cataloging, and access issues: challenges and opportunities." Library Resources & Technical Services 48.2: 144-54.
• A library at UNC decides to catalog and digitize its art. This paper outlines the entire process from start to finish.
Bunting, L. (2004). “Technical and Intellectual integration of Library and Museum information: Afterthoughts of two session organizers.” Art Documentation 23:2: 36-9.
• Certain museums have begun testing integrated access to object and bibliographic records within a single search mechanism in order to help art researchers find text, primary materials and images at one time.
Chun, Susan, Rich Cherry, Doug Hiwiller, Jennifer Trant, and Bruce Wyman. Steve.museum: An Ongoing Experiment in Social Tagging, Folksonomy, and Museums. Museums and the Web 2006. Albuquerque, March 22-25, 2006.
http://steve.museum/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=35&id=33
Doctorow, Cory. (2001). "Meta-Crap: Putting the Torch to Seven Straw Men of the Meta-Utopia." The Well, 1.3: 26. Retrieved on November 30, 2006: http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
Guy, Marieke. Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? D-Lib Magazine January 2006. Volume 12 Number 1 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html
Hammond, T., et al. (2005). "Social Bookmarking Tools (I): a general review." D-Lib Magazine 11:4. Retrieved on November 30, 2006, from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html
----------------. (2005). "Social Bookmarking Tools (II): a case study - Connotea." D-Lib Magazine 11:2. Retrieved on November 30, 2006, from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/lund/04lund.html
Hepburn, P. and Fiscella, J. B. (2006). “Constructing descriptive records for an art image database: what do statistics tell us?” College and Research Libraries 67.4: 334-53.
• Using AMICO as a subject, two researchers try and determine the factors that affect image retreival. They then suggest ways of creating better (more retreivable) image records.
Jespersen, H. P. and Jespersen, J. K. (2004). “The Problem of subject access to visual materials.” Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences 42.1: 37-48.
• This article discusses the problem of giving subject access to art images; specifically cataloguing, describing and indexing works of art.
Krosky, E. (2005, December 7). "The Hive-Mind: Folksonomy and User-Based Tagging." Infotangle blog. Retrieved on November 30, 2006, from http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2005/12/07/the-hive-mind-folksonomies-and-user-based-tagging
Marmor, M. (2006). The ArtSTOR Digital Library: A Case Study in Collection Building. Collection Building, 25.3: 95-99.
---------. (2003). ArtSTOR: A Digital Library for the History of Art. Journal of Library Administration, 39.2: 61-68.
Mirapaul, M. (2003, May 22). "Far-flung artworks, side by side online." The New York Times. Retrieved on November 20, 2006, from <http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?res=9C00EFDC1F3EF931A15756C0A9659C8B63> (This article is only accessible to subscribers of TimesSelect)
• This briefly discusses the benefits of AMICO and Artstor, noting that Artstor had enfolded AMICO in a 2003 merger.
Peterson, Elaine. Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy. D-Lib Magazine. November 2006 Volume 12 Number 11.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november06/peterson/11peterson.html
Porter, Joshua. (2005, April 26). "Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content." User Interface Engineering. Retrieved on November 30, 2006, from http://www.uie.com/articles/folksonomies
Rockenback, B. and Marmour, M. (2005). "Artstor’s digital landscape." Library Journal 130.12: 34-7.
• An in depth argument for the necessity of Artstor, especially for academics, written by two employees of Artstor.
Roncevic, M. (2005). "Using Artstor." Library Journal 130.12: 34-7.
• A review of Artstor from a librarian’s point of view. Quite a few quotes from art librarians.
Shirky, C. (2005, May 31). "Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags." Clay Shirky's Writings about the Internet. Retrived on November 30, 2006, from http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
Simor, S. (2003). “Visual Art resources online: issues, trends and challenges.” Art Documentation 22.1: 33-40.
• This article discusses the recent growth of online visual materials and what components will be necessary to create valuable and easily useable online (or database) collections.
Sinha, R. (2005, September 27). "A Cognitive Analysis of Tagging (Or How the Lower Cognitive Cost of Tagging Makes it Popular)." Rashmi Sinha's Blog: Thoughts on Technology, Design & Cognition. Retrieved on November 30, 2006, from http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_09/tagging-cognitive.html
Steve.museum Proof of Concept. http://steve.museum/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=33&Itemid=58
Trant, Jennifer. Exploring the potential for social tagging and folksonomy in art museums: proof of concept.
http://steve.museum/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=35&id=37
• A paper for the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. PDF Preprint
Trant, Jennifer. Social Classification and Folksonomy in Art Museums: early data from the steve.museum tagger prototype.
http://steve.museum/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=35&id=51
• A paper for the ASIST SIG-CR workshop on Social Classification, November 4, 2006
Trant, J., et al. (2002). "Open concepts: museum digital documentation for education through The Amico Library." Art Libraries Journal 27.3: 30-37.
• An article about the now defunct AMICO database. Good examples of why digital libraries are becoming more and more necessary, as well as interesting information on the things that go into creating a digital database.
Trant, Jennifer, and Bruce Wyman. Investigating social tagging and folksonomy in art museums with steve.museum.
http://steve.museum/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=35&id=32
• A paper for the Tagging Workshop, World Wide Web 2006. Edinburgh, Scotland. May 22, 2006. PDF Preprint
Weinberger, D. Beneath the Metadata: A Reply. Joho the Blog. November 19, 2006. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/beneath_the_metadata_a_reply.html
• more replys: http://www.personalinfocloud.com/2006/11/
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