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Impressionism

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Really Well, Really Wrong

Accessibility & Engagement

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Jump in

Weve done stuff

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Useful? 92.5% new terms

Total Terms: 340Unique Terms: 117Appropriate Terms: 107Blue Terms found in Object DataTotal Terms: 40Unique Terms: 8

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What do taggers do?

How do tags vary?

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Exploring the nature of tags: are tags real words?

Exploring the nature of tags: are they terms we use?

! dismasted

! foundering

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Exploring the nature of tags: are they terms from our discipline?

"representational

Exploring the nature of tags: are they terms searchers use?

shipwreck

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Exploring the nature of tags: are they appropriate to the work?

X rocky shoreX dolphins

yacht ?repose ?

" dangerous

" helpless

" you will die

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# PHP 5.1

# MySQL 4 or 5

# Apache or IIS

# Unix (Linux/OS X) or Windows

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.... in the amount of timeit took me to tell you about it

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# Short time boxes

# Developers select files to add

# Package built, sent to SourceForge

# Test team run through scripted scenarios

# Bug reporting and tracking

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# Golly steve looks like a great piece of software

# Its great that its open source, but# How on earth can I make use of this thing?

# Build Tools

# The steve taggerinterface is one exampleof a tool built using thesteve APIs

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# Application Programming Interface

# The set of commands programmers use to talk to eachothers software

# This enables a programmer to use this software w/ohaving to know how it works!

steve

API

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# The steve API is simply a set of questions you canask steve

# We can use these commands to build a variety ofpowerful tools!

steve

API

addImage()

createImageSet()

getAllImagesets()

addTerm()getDocumentFrequency()

getTermCount()

getAllImages()

getAllImagesInImageset()

getImageInImageset()

getImagesByKeyword()

getImagesByTermName()

Backend @ steve.museum Interface @ yourmuseum.com

steve

WS API

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require_once('steve_client.php');

$terms = $Term->getTermFrequency(0);

sort($terms);

foreach ($terms as $term) {

echo "{$term->term}

\n";

}

# PHP5 object interfaces for clients hosted on the steveserver

# For remote clients:

# SOAP WSDLs are auto-generated from API#

REST / URL-based interface# Initial tests tell us that this should work for clients

written in:

# php, Flash, .NET, Javascript

# Future:

# A more robust and integrated testing scheme

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# A wide variety of dataanalysis can beaccomplished withouttouching the DB

# We need to backup ourclaim that folksonomy byproviding good data

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# Pretty slide

# No realapplication

# Yet

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# Install it

# Try it out

# Read about it

# Talk about it

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# Installation requirements are very light

# Changing the look is easy# Installer and Install Guide download on Sourceforge

# That extra server you just retired

# A $6.95/month Web hosting provider

# Your desktop, even

# There are one-stop, combined downloads of all the

software you need to run steve, and it will run onevery OS

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# Design is pure standards-based CSS

# To change the look, just make a new style sheet# Lets check out some interfaces

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# Those are just new templates for the same basic page

# You can make a completely new interface, like in Robsexample, with the API

# Give the demo tagger a try on the public site, http://steve.museum (click Tag Art)

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www.steve.museum [email protected]


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# http://steve.museum

# Intro to the project

# Info for museums, researchers, and developers

# Reference section with papers, conference

presentations, dev specs

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# discuss list for general discussion about steve andmuseum tagging, more broadly

# steve.tech list for tech concerns, installation help, etc.

# Subscription links on http://steve.museum/

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