A new game puts the public into public radio archives – Poynter

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-04-28

Summary:

"[A] new game has launched that not only develops public awareness of public broadcasting archives, but actually deepens the public’s relationship with material in the archive.

The game, called Fix It, was launched by the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation. It asks the public for help in identifying and correcting errors in public media transcripts — which improves both the searchability and accessibility of archival material from the collection...."

Link:

http://www.poynter.org/2017/a-new-game-puts-the-public-into-public-radio-archives/457123/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.audio oa.usa oa.crowd oa.gamification

Date tagged:

04/28/2017, 12:08

Date published:

04/28/2017, 08:08