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Labeling Library Archives Is a Game at Dartmouth College
By admin | August 25, 2009
Labeling Library Archives Is a Game at Dartmouth College
Professor Mary Flanagan wants students to go online and label library archives – for free.
Ms. Flanagan, a digital-humanities professor at Dartmouth College, is creating an Internet-based game in which users create descriptive tags for library images to improve searching through the library’s database. Although the program will be tested at the college’s library, Ms. Flanagan says the game will be open source and available for others to download and build upon.
She
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