Can you guess what people will know about a photograph? We asked some random people to describe the image you are about to see in a single word. How many of these words can you match in 2 minutes?!
Pyramid Tag is a Metadata Game: a game that gathers new information about archival materials from libraries and archives around the world! You are adding vital information to publically accessible records-- information that is often missing from descriptions or keywords describing media artifacts.
Gameplay
In this single-player image tagging game, the best descriptions win. But there’s a catch-- you have to give the best tags that are four, five, six letters long… and so on, that also match what random people out there would see in the picture. You get the point. Got a twelve letter word for a picture of a newt? You will win, win, win! It’s trickier than you might expect. Good luck!
Fun Features
* Quick-paced game with lots of replayability
* Infinite levels that get more challenging for those with extremely distinguished vocabularies
* Play from an ever-expanding collection of images from your favorite museums and libraries
* Explore unusual photographs and select what museum or library to help
* List your interests and bookmark your favorite images
Participate
By playing Pyramid Tag, you will be a part of real research with your favorite museums and libraries!
Every time you play a Metadata Game, you:
* make it easier to for the community to find and use digital media from collections in libraries, museums, and universities
* have a direct effect on the preservation of images, videos, and audio clips for future generations--artifacts that may otherwise ‘disappear’ without good tags
* be a part of research -- you are actually a researcher yourself as a CITIZEN SCHOLAR!
Metadata Games is a free and open source software (FOSS) developed by Tiltfactor laboratory (http://www.tiltfactor.org) at Dartmouth College, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the ACLS.
Metadata Games. Play. Tag. Connect.
http://www.metadatagames.org