Tagging in Museums: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s One Met. Many Worlds.
Xue Yuan Li · 2016
The topic that will be explored is on the issue of tagging on museum websites. The case study chosen is called One Met. Many Worlds., a feature created by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2014 for exploring highlight objects from its collection. Though the site provides pre-defined tags, users themselves cannot enter tags, preventing the crowdsourcing of their inputs. In addition to this, the museum’s online catalogue currently lack user tags. Tagging features in the Powerhouse Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and a website called Your Paintings Tagger all garner a tremendous amount of input from users, and so museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art may benefit from including user tagging on their websites if they desire contribution and engagement from online visitors.