Art and the Semantic Web
Alright, this is the last Wall Street article for the day. Museums are beginning to open up their collections to the Web for tagging: Why Museums Want you to Catalog their Works
The idea: If works are labeled with simple terms that describe their content, a broader audience will be able to find them, particularly as these collections are digitized and placed online.
It’s an idea that’s at odds with curatorial conventions of grouping works by time period or school of art. But in recent years, some museums have reexamined that model. London’s Tate Modern made a splash in 2000 when it hung its collection by themes such as landscape, though this year it adopted a more traditional system
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