For Immediate Release Tiltfactor is proud to announce a new collaboration with the British Library! To celebrate, Tiltfactor’s Metadata Games project will launch the new tagging game Ships Tag as part of a tag event called May Day! May Day! starting midnight on May 1st. The ...
For Immediate Release Tiltfactor is proud to announce the addition of 4,000 new images from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library to the Metadata Games platform. Metadata Games is a digital gaming platform for gathering useful descriptive data on photo, audio, and moving image...
For Immediate Release January 22, 2014 Hanover, NH -- A photograph or a piece of film might stay in a library storage box for one hundred years and be seen by very few visitors. What if that image or that film could be digitized and posted online,...
Come see Geoff and Max talk about the Metadata Games project this Friday at DPLAfest in Boston to get a first-hand look at the project's newest games! DPLAfest 2013 is a two-day series of DPLA-related workshops, discussions, and other hands-on activities that are free and open...
The following is the second in a 3-part series of posts by Tiltfactor student interns. Metadata Games is a NEH-funded open source project that uses games to help crowdsource archive and library holding tags. Below, interns Alannah and Rebecca briefly describe their process for designing...
The following is the first in a 3-part series of posts by Tiltfactor student interns describing the process of creating and testing new game prototypes for the lab's Metadata Games project. Metadata Games is a NEH-funded, open source project that uses games to help crowdsource...
(pdf version) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact -at- tiltfactor -dot- org (603) 646-1007 July 31, 2012 (Hanover, NH) - The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced that Tiltfactor director Mary Flanagan is one of seven award recipients in the endowment’s inaugural Digital Humanities Implementation Grant program. The Digital...
Researchers at Tiltfactor have been working into the wee hours on honing the Metadata system. Many doughnuts have been consumed as we work out plans for trust algorithms and community motivation. [caption id="attachment_1920" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Troopers Sukdith Punjasthitkul (Dartmouth '98 MS Evaluative Clinical Sciences) and...
In their quest to use human computation ability to its fullest, U-Washington researchers made a game called Foldit available on the web to model the folding of proteins. Based on Rosetta@home project, where volunteers were contributing the downtime on their home computers to power a...
[caption id="attachment_1740" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="device design by Ed Flanagan"][/caption] We're taking a moment to reflect on the lab's move to Dartmouth. First, we found some press to share if you'd like to chart our progress with us! In an upcoming post, we'll review all of our...