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Angry Birds for the Thinking Person – National Library of Finland crowdsources fixing OCR errors

Posted on 10Feb1110Feb11 by jessamyn

A nice long post from ReadWriteWeb about how the National Library of Finland has created some microtasking games to help get the OCR errors in their massive digitzation project fixed up. Related, a panel at NYPL from a few days ago sounds interesting.

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