YPT is a site set up by the Public Catalogue Foundation and the BBC to put 200,000 publically owned oil paintings online. The project is currently asking people to go online and tag the pictures, not only with who, when what how? but also with descriptions of what you see and how you inturprate each picture to make them easier for people to search for. With multiple people tagging each picture the system looks at the more popular tags in order to find one that is more accurate statistically.
They say that no prior knowledge of art is needed, and that one only needs to tell what they see, making not only this site but also the work accessible to all.
check it out at tagger.thepcf.org.uk/ it looks like great fun and a real worthwhile project in the attempt to get public motivation behind art in a time of cuts in the arts world.
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