Steve is an open source social tagging tool that lets you publish a collection and collect tags. It is developed by museum folk for research into tagging of cultural objects. It seems to me to be an adaptation of the reCAPTCHA idea or Google’s image tagging game.
Our current research project, “T3: Text, Tags, Trust,” a partnership with the University of Maryland’s School, is funded, in part, by a National Leadership Grant for Research from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Sciences. Results of a recently-completed IMLS research project, “Researching Social Tagging and Folksonomy in the Art Museum,” are presented in the Research section of this website. Data collected at http://tagger.steve.museum provides a testbed for researching our hypotheses about social tagging.
See the Research section of the site for research results and a dataset for experimentation.
Thanks to Megan for this.