What happens to game designers when they don't know the "right" answers? This is especially important in situations where designers need to somehow verify crowdsourcing data. What data can we obtain with the resources we have? Well, what do we have? 1)...
At Tiltfactor we're designing a suite of games that inspires users to tag photographs with “expert” data. Using their input, are building a searchable database of terms that users can explore to find the photographs they need. But how should such a database be constructed...
We need to tag 64,000 photographs with expert data. Thousands of people are going to come and help us, some for hours at a time, and we will attract them through the pleasure of play. How can tagging an archive of old photographs ever be...
A news piece on Tiltfactor's metadata project aired Sept. 29 on WCAX-Channel 3, Vermont's statewide television station based in Burlington. The piece features project director Mary Flanagan and one of her students, Danielle Arostegui, from Dartmouth. A print story also appears on the station's...
Google book search, on track to become the world's largest digital library, is discussed in this important Chronicle article. This is an important discussion about rights, access, searching, and metadata. The article points to the mislableling of metadata and other issues in searching Google...