ARTigo & prometheus
The collaborative platform ARTigo, a long-term project of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, brings together many game variants, all of which work in such a way that reproductions of works of art shown are to be tagged with keywords within a certain time in order to score as many points as possible as a player. After the games, these keywords are visible and saved as metadata for the images. This is intended to improve searches for works of art in image databases. In prometheus, the tags generated in this way are integrated into two image databases, one in DadaWeb from the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne and the other in ArteMIS, the original database of the Art History Institute of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. As the following example shows, this metadata is also used to find “Bonaparte franchissant les Alpes au Grand-Saint-Bernard | Bonaparte crosses the Saint Bernard Pass” by Jacques Louis David…
…under the search term “Napoleon”.
For some searches, it may be useful not to search with the additional keywords. Therefore, in prometheus’ advanced search, it is possible to search across all fields and across all fields including the ARTigo tags.
For example, if you use “blue” as a search term, a search across all fields will display 28,950 records in the results list, and a search including the ARTigo tags will display 44,091 records.
