TY - GEN
T1 - Analysing User Motivation in an Art Folksonomy
AU - Arends, Max
AU - Wolfartsberger, Josef
AU - Goldfarb, Doron
AU - Merkl, Dieter
AU - Weingartner, Martin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The perception of art is a subjective affair - being influenced by our feelings, education and cultural background. Contrary, the study of art history uses formal methods to classify artworks. This discrepancy often poses a risk of being insurmountable -- especially for users without prior knowledge of art history. The concept of social tagging provides the possibility to merge art historical information with the subjective perception of users. For our art Web platform explorARTorium, social tags augment exiting art historical information. In order to better understand how social tagging is best applied, it is necessary to examine the user's motivation to assign tags. We adopt the differentiation between users who are motivated by categorizing, and users who are motivated by describing resources. By evaluating our folksonomy according to this paradigm, we show that the preference for certain artworks has an effect on the user's tagging motivation, whereas the presentation of an artwork does not. While measures exist that are able to identify the user's motivation for annotating artworks, we propose an heuristic that aims to classify categorizing, respectively descriptive, tags. After evaluating this proposed heuristic, we show that it is indeed possible to identify categorizing and descriptive tags, even though the results are somewhat biased by the content of the resources and the individual tagging behaviour of the users.
AB - The perception of art is a subjective affair - being influenced by our feelings, education and cultural background. Contrary, the study of art history uses formal methods to classify artworks. This discrepancy often poses a risk of being insurmountable -- especially for users without prior knowledge of art history. The concept of social tagging provides the possibility to merge art historical information with the subjective perception of users. For our art Web platform explorARTorium, social tags augment exiting art historical information. In order to better understand how social tagging is best applied, it is necessary to examine the user's motivation to assign tags. We adopt the differentiation between users who are motivated by categorizing, and users who are motivated by describing resources. By evaluating our folksonomy according to this paradigm, we show that the preference for certain artworks has an effect on the user's tagging motivation, whereas the presentation of an artwork does not. While measures exist that are able to identify the user's motivation for annotating artworks, we propose an heuristic that aims to classify categorizing, respectively descriptive, tags. After evaluating this proposed heuristic, we show that it is indeed possible to identify categorizing and descriptive tags, even though the results are somewhat biased by the content of the resources and the individual tagging behaviour of the users.
KW - Cultural heritage
KW - Folksonomy-mining
KW - Social tagging
KW - User interaction
KW - User profiling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867479247&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2362456.2362473
DO - 10.1145/2362456.2362473
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450312424
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 1
EP - 8
BT - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, i-KNOW 2012
T2 - International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
Y2 - 7 September 2011 through 9 September 2011
ER -