Hi Wikimedia Commons folks!
Metadata Games (MG) is a FOSS project that we've been working on at Tiltfactor Lab at Dartmouth College. It's a bit of an experimental project using online games to help with the collection of metadata for images in various collections (libraries, archives, etc...).
There's a bit of basic information up on the Tiltfactor website about the background and main goals of the project: http://www.tiltfactor.org/metadata-games
And (because talk is cheap :-), source code is up on Gitorious here: http://gitorious.org/metadatagames
If you promise not to explode our server too much, you can point your browser over to http://metadatagames.com and see a version of the software in action. Right now that's pointing to a test install with some pictures from Dartmouth's archives. We have some great black-and-white images from old Winter Carnivals, as well as some more modern color photographs from around the campus. We're mostly done collecting data with that particular test, so feel free to play around with the images and games we have up there.
The MG system currently has a couple of different games for single and multi-player tagging of images. In the next couple of months we're hoping to add support for more media types (including audio and video) as well as making some big improvements to the backend of the system so that we can scale-up for big installs.
We're currently collaborating with a couple of different groups including the Rauner Library here at Dartmouth, and we're eager to see more groups benefit from tagging media with MG. Sam Klein pinged me about working with Wikimedia, and we'd definitely be excited to collaborate on improvements or expansions to the current system. The simplest way to use MG would just be to funnel images from Commons through the system, and then export and use the highest-ranked tags. I haven't been very active in the Wikimedia community for the last few years, so I'm not quite up to date on all of the projects percolating out there, but there might also be some more creative ways in which the MG system could be employed :-)
Cheers, Robinson Tryon
(User:Womble on various wikimedia sites)
Thanks Womble, this sounds interesting. Hopefully you wouldn't have to export - if a commons image is tagged via MG it could automatically trigger an edit on commons (w an approved bot).
This also reminds me a bit of some of the media metadata hacks wikihow worked on at one point. SJ On Aug 21, 2012 2:07 PM, "Robinson Tryon" bishop.robinson@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Wikimedia Commons folks!
Metadata Games (MG) is a FOSS project that we've been working on at Tiltfactor Lab at Dartmouth College. It's a bit of an experimental project using online games to help with the collection of metadata for images in various collections (libraries, archives, etc...).
There's a bit of basic information up on the Tiltfactor website about the background and main goals of the project: http://www.tiltfactor.org/metadata-games
And (because talk is cheap :-), source code is up on Gitorious here: http://gitorious.org/metadatagames
If you promise not to explode our server too much, you can point your browser over to http://metadatagames.com and see a version of the software in action. Right now that's pointing to a test install with some pictures from Dartmouth's archives. We have some great black-and-white images from old Winter Carnivals, as well as some more modern color photographs from around the campus. We're mostly done collecting data with that particular test, so feel free to play around with the images and games we have up there.
The MG system currently has a couple of different games for single and multi-player tagging of images. In the next couple of months we're hoping to add support for more media types (including audio and video) as well as making some big improvements to the backend of the system so that we can scale-up for big installs.
We're currently collaborating with a couple of different groups including the Rauner Library here at Dartmouth, and we're eager to see more groups benefit from tagging media with MG. Sam Klein pinged me about working with Wikimedia, and we'd definitely be excited to collaborate on improvements or expansions to the current system. The simplest way to use MG would just be to funnel images from Commons through the system, and then export and use the highest-ranked tags. I haven't been very active in the Wikimedia community for the last few years, so I'm not quite up to date on all of the projects percolating out there, but there might also be some more creative ways in which the MG system could be employed :-)
Cheers, Robinson Tryon
(User:Womble on various wikimedia sites)
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Samuel Klein, 22/08/2012 18:06:
Thanks Womble, this sounds interesting. Hopefully you wouldn't have to export - if a commons image is tagged via MG it could automatically trigger an edit on commons (w an approved bot).
This also reminds me a bit of some of the media metadata hacks wikihow worked on at one point. SJ
Any update? Right now I'm the only player online. ;-) The main problem, again, would be that we use categories rather than tags so tags would need to be "translated" at some point. Maybe MaartenA/Multichill could give some clue about how his awesome categorization code (for Geograph and other batch uploads) works.
Nemo