New Media Centers

The New Media Center will partner with multiple museums, including the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Denver Art Museum, to bring the “Steve Project” to a broader audience. The Steve Project is a tool that simplifies the navigation of online museum collections by allowing the viewer to “tag” an image with descriptive terms. Social tagging provides a new way of classifying works of art outside the specialized language of art history. New partners added to the project include the Minnesota Digital Library Coalition, the MINITEX Library network, and several small to mid-sized museums that work with the New Media Center. The 2008 grant will apply the research learned from the first iteration of this project to develop enhanced tools to make Steve more accessible to a broader variety of institutions and people.