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Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections

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Crowdsourcing the creation, correction or enhancement of data about objects through games is an attractive proposition for museums looking to maximize use of their collections online without ...

Crowdsourcing the creation, correction or enhancement of data about objects through games is an attractive proposition for museums looking to maximize use of their collections online without committing intensive curatorial resources to enhancing catalogue records. This paper investigates the optimum game designs to encourage participation and the generation of useful data through a case study of the project Museum Metadata Games (MMG), designed to help improve the mass of 'difficult' – technical, near-duplicate, poorly catalogued or scantily digitized – records that make up the majority of many history museum collections.

The written paper is at http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/papers/playing_with_difficult_objects_game_designs_to

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Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections

'This collection is not for you...'

Collections are big, resources are small

The magic circle (and other definitions...)

'difficult' objects: technical, near-duplicate, poorly catalogued or scantily digitised 'toy' model steam engines, Powerhouse Museum

Games are 'participation engines' DigitalKoot, Finland: 'only after one month of launching... over 2 million individual tasks, totalling 100,000 minutes, or 1,700 hours, of work'

Competition for eyeballs

Exploring object classes...

A spinny process...

Game design workshop

One Facebook status update asking for players: 180 turns (176 tagging turns, 4 fact turns), 1179 tags and 4 facts about 145 objects from 26 players in c. 6 hours

Instant action

Don't require registration

Validate procrastination

Polish is vital – 'worthy' isn't good enough

Competing for 'participation bandwidth'

Potential game 'atoms'

Tagging

Debunking

Recording a personal story

Linking

Stating preferences

Categorising

Creative responses

User content in game ecosystems

What next?

Tag Hero – social 'challenge a friend' game

Play Dora or Tag Hero with personalised place, period, object type or topic

Tag quality – test tags against corpus of collections texts to eliminate nonsense words while rewarding unusual-but-valid terms

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