TAG this!

Yo Art Lovers! Come take part in a social tagging experiment going on the art world. The Art Museum Social Tagging Project involves research studies, real experiments, and prototypes exploring the potential for user-generated descriptions of the subjects of works of art to improve access to museum collections and encourage engagement with cultural content. "Steve" is one such collaborative project that has developed a very cool Web-based tool where users can view and tag art images.

Check out the project at http://steve.museum/.

UNH DigiTool Implementation (with maps!)

Check out University of New Hampshire's Digital Library Initiative using DigiTool at this site . These fine folks appear to be addressing alot of the same metadata issues as we are, according to postings on their blog.

Metadata Programs at ALA Annual 2007

Automating Metadata Creation with Open Source Software (LITA) Saturday, 6-23-07, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Focus on technical, preservation and administrative metadata

Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse (LITA, ALCTS)
Sunday, 6-24-07, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Relevant to life under Endeca

Bringing Order to Chaos: Managing Metadata for Digital Collections (ALCTS)
Sunday, 6-24-07, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Descriptive, technical administrative metadata will be discussed

TAG! Your IT! Online Digital Audio Collection Meets PennTags (LITA President's Program) Sunday, June 24, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Case study demonstrating access to an audio digital library via the Library OPAC ; and an experiment in social bookmarking and tagging

Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: Implementing METS, MODS, PREMIS, and MIX (LITA)
Monday, 6-25-07, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Standards, tools, and interoperability for D.L. metadata