Children's tagging of art museum objects

The aim of this study, funded in 2008-09 by the UCLA Academic Senate's Council on Research (COR) Faculty Grants Program (FGP) and UCLA's Center for Community Partnerships, is to evaluate the outcomes of young (7-11-year-old) people's participation in the generation of words and phrases ("tags") that describe the works of art in a museum's collection. The study will be conducted in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), whose artworks will be tagged by participating children using the web-based tagging tool created by the steve consortium. [More ...]

Last updated 2008.06.25