your paintings tagger - mcn 2013

TAGGER

discovering a nation’s art collection

• Introduction

• BBC Your Paintings

• Your Paintings Tagger

Agenda

Adrian Cooper

previously.../ Head of IT Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/ Head of IT V&A/ Director European Operations Gallery Systems/ 10 years independent digital consultant

Introduction Hello

combines strategy, consulting, software development and digital design in a single agency.

Introduction Clients

• Introduction

• BBC Your Paintings

• Your Paintings Tagger

Agenda

• partnership project

• BBC and The Public Catalogue Foundation

• UK national collection of oil paintings

• 212,080 paintings

• 48,833 artists

• 2,668 collections

• 400,000 unique visits per month

Your Paintings

Your Paintings http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings

Your Paintings paintings index page

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Your Paintings painting page

Your Paintings painting page

Your Paintings painting page

Your Paintings filter by tag

• Introduction

• BBC Your Paintings

• Your Paintings Tagger

Agenda

Your Paintings Tagger http://tagger.thepcf.org.uk

• it’s a crowdsourcing project

• enhancing collection metadata to facilitate discovery

• users tag random paintings from the entire collection or a selected subset

• tags for each painting are accumulated

• algorithms determine a “result” for each painting

• popular tags accepted

• tags below threshold rejected

• painting tags shown in Your Paintings

Your Paintings Tagger quick facts

• launched June 2011

• over 10,000 taggers

• over 3,000,000 tags

• over 33,000 tags for top tagger

• over 23,000 paintings completed

Your Paintings Tagger some statistics

Your Paintings Tagger workflow

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Your Paintings Tagger workflow

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Your Paintings Tagger workflow

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Your Paintings Tagger workflow

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Your Paintings Tagger workflow

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• how can we speed up tagging?

• research project with BBC, PCF and Oxford University

• using visual recognition techniques to automatically generate tags

• learn from existing tags

Your Paintings Tagger next steps

Your Paintings Tagger computer generated tags

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