[TagCommons-WG] Async ESP game - collaborative photo tagging for JeromeDL

[J. Trant]

Sebastian,

It will be interesting to see if prompting for facets improves the 
tags that you get in your application.  In the proof-of-concept work 
for steve.museum, the team at The Metropolitan Museum of Art found 
that prompting for facets often produced 'forced' results, as 
participants tried to fill in all the blanks: a favourite example 
"foot washing time" for Time related to a painting with a New 
Testament theme.

See http://www.archimuse.com/papers/steve-nrhm-0605preprint.pdf for a 
pre-print of the article that reports the tests.

steve.museum is now running broader tests of tagging related to art. 
Everyone's invited to drop by http://tagger.steve.museum -- sign up 
for an account to help our research -- and Tag Art!

best,

jennifer

At 7:28 AM +0100 5/30/07, Sebastian Kruk wrote:
>Dear Tom, fellow group members,
>
>Together with my group we work on a modified version of the ESP game 
>for JeromeDL, were users'  tagging would be annealed over the time 
>before it  becomes "visible" (since in the low-interest community 
>like DLs it might be hard to get a critical mass of users "to play" 
>the classical ESP game).
>
>During his analysis, Maciej, who works on this module, suggested that 
>we could actually support users in tagging by recognizing and 
>suggesting types of tags identifying different features of the photo, 
>such as "agent", "action", "object", "setting"=place (I would add 
>"time" to this list).
>
>We are going to use tagcommons ontology for tagging and our java API 
>(tagging-api in tagstreemaps project on sf.net) to capture the 
>tagging process. I have identified, however, two issues we will need 
>to address by extending the generic tagging ontology:
>    * support for regions-of-interest - so that we can tag a part of 
>an object, but the tagging can be inferred on the whole object
>    * support for types of tagging identified by Maciej
>
>Do you maybe know of any similar activities, ontologies, etc that we 
>could refer to; we do not want to reinvent the wheel but rather re-
>use existing solutions.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sebastian
>
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