Museums and the Web wrapped up yesterday.  I won’t blog about that because I didn’t get to attend the conference but came in for a series of meetings including today’s all day meeting of the STEVE social tagging project team.

We are meeting at the Hilton Bonaventure Montreal, an unusual property, the hotel is actually the top few stories of a sort Brutalist architecture office block.  It’s rather like we are staying in a little isolated island at the top of the city because outside the windows, instead of a central light well, is a beautifully landscaped garden, complete with evergreen trees, ponds, and ducks.  It’s been grey and rainy for the better part of the two days I’ve been here and today a very light snow is falling.

Towards the end of lunch after we had discussed things like lettting visitors write their own metadata for objects, the prescient nature of earlier papers at Museums and the Web, and whether or not Peter Samis is actually a character from The Wire… we wrote a group Haiku based on the fact that the windows in this room are tall and narrow like Japanese screens.  So here’s our group Haiku (Andrea, Ray, WIlly, Michael, Bruce, Susan, Peter, and myself):

Snowflakes in April

Curtains conceal the treeline

Ducks say W.T.F.

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