Slidecast about social tagging study

For those who are interested in social tagging or who might have missed the Community Engagement session at Museums and the Web 2008 (MW2008) in April, I just posted the slides and audio track of my presentation Seeing Tibetan Art through Social Tags on Slideshare. The slidecast covers preliminary results of an ongoing study of social tagging among the Tibetan exile community in Switzerland. A quick summary of results includes:

• Different tagging and viewing patterns among Tibetans and Westerners
• Complex and often awkward feelings young Tibetans experience when viewing traditional artworks
• Clearly discernible levels of cultural pervasiveness of traditional images
  
• Shared misunderstandings about specific types of images

The presentation offers suggestions on successful approaches to social tagging studies within native and diaspora communities. Full details of the results and the techniques of analysis used to arrive at them are available in the conference paper. This project is sponsored by the Rubin Museum of Art and uses the steve.museum platform for tag collection.