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Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections
Mia Ridge, Science Museum, United Kingdom
Abstract
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 that successfully designed games that created improved metadata for 'difficult' objects from two science and history museum collections.
Keywords: collections, games, crowdsourcing, objects, metadata, tagging
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Playing with museums - game designs to improve museum collections