Last month I challenged you to think how we could describe website and online resources accurately.
Here’s our thinking for the metadata ‘describe’ phase: to turn describing websites into a game that anyone can play online.
Here’s how we got there:
1. http://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=whatis Mechanical Turk is probably one of the best known early web based crowdsourcing systems used to get people to describe (metadata) that is normally very difficult for a computer to do well.
2. http://recaptcha.net/ is a cleverly combines completely different tasks
a) checking that a human is completing a online form (and not a computer)
b) improve the accuracy of digitising of books through character recognition
What’s interesting here is how it capitalises on a moment of human skill (recognition) that is ordinarily being wasted on a common website verification task (CAPTCHA) that is occurring on the scale of the internet.
3. http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ is a simple game that is strangely addictive, helping improve the accuracy of image description.
Post a Comment