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Purposeful gaming and BHL: engaging the public in improving and enhancing access to digital texts William Ulate R. Global BHL Coordinator BHL-US/UK Technical Director Florida, December 16 – 20 , 2013 iDigBio & Zooniverse CITSCribe Hackathon

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Purposeful gaming and BHL: engaging

the public in improving and

enhancing access to digital texts

William Ulate R.

Global BHL CoordinatorBHL-US/UK Technical Director

Florida, December 16 – 20 , 2013

iDigBio & Zooniverse CITSCribe Hackathon

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Project objectives and benefits• Test new means of crowdsourcing to support the

enhancement of content in BHL

• Demonstrate if digital games are an effective tool for analyzing and improving digital outputs from OCR and transcription

• Benefits of gaming include:– improved access to content by providing richer and more

accurate data; – an extension of limited staff resources; and – exposure of library content to communities who may not

know about the collections otherwise.

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Purposeful Gaming and BHL

Digitalkoot

Missouri Botanical GardenHarvard UniversityCornell UniversityNew York Botanical Garden

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OCR Improvements

German text interpreted by the OCR process as:

“unb auf ben ©elnrgen be6 fublic{)en”

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OCR Improvements

Different resulting texts from parsing the phrase:“und auf den Gebirgen des südlichen Deutschlands”

(“and on the mountains of southern Germany”)

IA OCR OCR 2Transcription

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Transcription

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1 unb und und und Ok

2 den ben den den Ok

3 ©elnrgen ©ebirgen Bebirgen Gebirgen X

4 be6 des de5 des Chk

5 fublic{)en fublichen Füdlichen Südlichen X

6 £)eittfc{)(anb6 Deutfchlanbs Deutfchlands Deutschlands X

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Thank you

[email protected]

BHL Data Analyst

Purposeful Gaming Project P.I.

Missouri Botanical Garden

[email protected]

2013 iDigBio Transcription HackathonDecember 16 -20, 2013

[email protected]

Global BHL Project Manager

BHL Technical Director

Missouri Botanical Garden

[email protected]