search expand
Skip to content

librarian.net

putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999

  • about
  • faq
  • talks
  • contact

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.

Posted in blogzTagged crowdsourcing, finland, games, nypl, ocr

Post navigation

Previous Postit’s tax time again…
Next Postsome amazing international libraries, not the usual set

2 thoughts on “Angry Birds for the Thinking Person – National Library of Finland crowdsources fixing OCR errors”

  1. Pingback: Tweets that mention librarian.net » Blog Archive » Angry Birds for the Thinking Person – National Library of Finland crowdsources fixing OCR errors -- Topsy.com
  2. Pingback: National Library of Finland Turns to Crowdsourcing, Games to Help Digitize Its Archives

Comments are closed.

RSS been reading

  • Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell
  • We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen
  • The Templar’s Last Secret by Martin Walker
  • The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
  • Zone One by Colson Whitehead

recent posts

  • 2020 reading list and commentary
  • 2020 in Libraries
  • Ask A Librarian: Senior-Friendly Devices?
  • Ask A Librarian: training for older tech users?
  • Ask A Librarian: How to get started adding citations to Wikipedia
  • Ask A Librarian: setting up a WP site accessibly?
  • Rest in Power John Lewis
  • Ask A Librarian: What is the deal with “free” ebook sites?
  • Our Library Associations
  • 2019 reading list and commentary

Tweetin

Tweets by @jessamyn
freecamporn

Archives

Ancient Archives

2003: jan : feb : mar : apr : may : jun
jul
2002: jan : feb : mar : apr : may : jun
jul : aug : sep : oct : nov: dec
2001: jan : feb : mar : apr : may : jun
jul : aug : sep : oct : nov : dec
2000: jan : feb : mar : apr : may : jun
jul : aug : sep : oct : nov : dec
1999: apr : may : june
jul : jul : aug : sep : oct/nov : dec
librarian.net by jessamyn west
Creative Commons License
Powered by Miniva WordPress Theme