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

[Sebastian Kruk]

Dear Jennifer,

thank you for you remarks. It is a valuable input to our research as  
well.

Best,

Sebastian



On 5 Jun 2007, at 14:14, J. Trant wrote:

> 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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