The document discusses the BBC Your Paintings project, which provides an online database of over 200,000 UK paintings from 48,833 artists and 2,668 collections. It allows users to search the paintings using facets like artists, styles and locations. The Your Paintings Tagger crowdsources tagging of the paintings by having users add tags to random paintings. Over 10,000 taggers have added over 3 million tags to help enhance the metadata. Future work includes using computer vision techniques to automatically generate initial tags to help speed up the tagging process.

1. TAGGER
discovering
a nation’s art collection

2. Agenda
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Introduction
BBC Your Paintings
Your Paintings Tagger

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

4. Introduction
Clients

5. Agenda
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Introduction
BBC Your Paintings
Your Paintings Tagger

6. Your Paintings
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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

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

8. Your Paintings
Faceted search
Things
People
Places
Events
Styles
Types
Artists
paintings index page

9. Your Paintings
painting page

10. Your Paintings
painting page

11. Your Paintings
painting page

12. Your Paintings
filter by tag

13. Agenda
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Introduction
BBC Your Paintings
Your Paintings Tagger

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

15. Your Paintings Tagger
quick facts
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it’s a crowdsourcing project
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users tag random paintings from the entire
collection or a selected subset
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tags for each painting are accumulated
enhancing collection metadata to facilitate
discovery
algorithms determine a “result” for each painting
popular tags accepted
tags below threshold rejected
painting tags shown in Your Paintings

16. Your Paintings Tagger
some statistics
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launched June 2011
over 10,000 taggers
over 3,000,000 tags
over 33,000 tags for top tagger
over 23,000 paintings completed

17. Your Paintings Tagger
Things
People
Places
Events
Subjects
Types
Styles
workflow

18. Your Paintings Tagger
Things
People
Places
Events
Subjects
Types
Styles
workflow

19. Your Paintings Tagger
Things
People
Places
Events
Subjects
Types
Styles
workflow

20. Your Paintings Tagger
Things
People
Places
Events
Subjects
Types
Styles
workflow

21. Your Paintings Tagger
Things
People
Places
Events
Subjects
Types
Styles
workflow

22. Your Paintings Tagger
next steps
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how can we speed up tagging?
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research project with BBC, PCF and Oxford
University
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using visual recognition techniques to
automatically generate tags
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learn from existing tags

23. Your Paintings Tagger
Ship
computer generated tags

24. Your Paintings Tagger
Moustache
computer generated tags

25. Your Paintings Tagger
Handkerchief
computer generated tags

26. Your Paintings Tagger
Profile
computer generated tags

27. Your Paintings Tagger
village
computer generated tags

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