{"id":30,"date":"2014-08-29T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-12-19T10:53:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T10:53:38","slug":"metadata-fun-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/2014\/08\/29\/metadata-fun-and-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Metadata Fun and Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MetadataGames1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3848 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MetadataGames1.jpg\" alt=\"MetadataGames1\" width=\"616\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week we ran a 1980s-inspired crowdsourcing \u2018Metadata Game\u2019 to enhance the description of items within our online image collection <a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\">http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk<\/a>. The good folk of Library and University Collections rallied to the cause and ten hardy volunteers surrendered their lunch breaks to take part in the session, sustained only by coffee, biscuits and a will to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Each participant was provided with a series of random images and received one \u2018crowdsourcing point\u2019 for every person, object or location they tagged. Can you spot a familiar face in one of the randomly-generated images below?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG202.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3847 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG202.jpg\" alt=\"MetadataGames 2\" width=\"432\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the tagging was complete, the group then moderated the submitted terms and further points were awarded for approved tags. In the course of the session, 264 images were tagged a total of 631 times and, although time ran out during the moderation phase because of issues with load on the software, we learned a lot about the programme and received useful feedback for future sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Norman Rodger from the Projects &amp; Innovations team ran out the clear winner on this occasion, with 221 points, but he was pushed all the way by Sandi Phillips and Clare Button, who finished second and third with 155 and 146 points respectively.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be setting up the game again at the <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/\">Pop Up Library<\/a> during Freshers\u2019 Week so come along and find us if you\u2019re interested in having a go for yourself! Or if you\u2019re anxious to have a shot now, please email <a href=\"mailto:gavin.willshaw@ed.ac.uk\">gavin.willshaw@ed.ac.uk<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:scott.renton@ed.ac.uk\">scott.renton@ed.ac.uk<\/a> and we\u2019d be happy to send you the link. Maybe you can even set a new high score\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week we ran a 1980s-inspired crowdsourcing \u2018Metadata Game\u2019 to enhance the description of items within our online image collection http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk. The good folk of Library and University Collections rallied to the cause and ten hardy volunteers surrendered their lunch breaks to take part in the session, sustained only by coffee, biscuits and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/2014\/08\/29\/metadata-fun-and-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Metadata Fun and Games<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,4,5,2,3],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarylabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}