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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts tagged with purposeful-gaming

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Update: Smorball and Beanstalk Access Restored

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Access to BHL’s two online games, Smorball and Beanstalk, has now been restored. Thank you for your patience. Start playing today and improve access to BHL’s books and journals by helping to correct our OCR (optical character recognition).

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June 2, 2016byGrace Costantino
BHL News, Blog Reel

BHL Data Dash – Dec 7th – 9th 2015

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library is hosting a 48-hour data correction event on December 7-9 2015. We’re enlisting the help of you, the BHL community, to help us complete 10,000 pages from BHL’s OCR output that we can then use as a training set to apply to the remaining BHL corpus.

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December 3, 2015byPatrick Randall
BHL News, Blog Reel

Smorball and Beanstalk: Games that aren’t just fun to play but help science too

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As game players are growing beanstalks and leading the Eugene Mellonballers to victory, historic books are being saved from digital oblivion.

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August 28, 2015byTrish Rose-Sandler
BHL News, Blog Reel

Smorball and Beanstalk Are Live!

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library is excited to announce the release of two new games by Tiltfactor that will improve access to BHL collections and open a new frontier for crowdsourcing and citizen science. Smorball and Beanstalk were designed as part of the Purposeful Gaming Project, which explores how digital games can make scanned content more accessible and searchable for cultural institutions.

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June 9, 2015byPatrick Randall
Blog Reel, Campaigns, Featured Books, Garden Stories

What’s Up with Seed Catalogs in BHL?

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We’ve spent a fun-filled week exploring the history, art, and science of gardening with our Garden Stories event.
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March 27, 2015byGrace Costantino
BHL News, Blog Reel, Campaigns, Garden Stories

Announcing Garden Stories: A Week Long Event for Garden Lovers

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Spring is coming! Get your trowels ready! We’re excited to announce BHL’s spring event, “Garden Stories,” which will occur March 23-27, 2015.

“Garden Stories” is a week long social media event for garden lovers.

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March 11, 2015byGrace Costantino
Blog Reel, Featured Books

A Bridge to the Past: The Writings of William Brewster

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William Brewster was a self-educated ornithologist who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From the mid-1800s until his death in 1919, he amassed a tremendous specimen collection and became one of the foremost experts on birds in the northeastern United States. In 1906, the Nuttall Ornithological Club published The Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts, Brewster’s exhaustive work on the avian fauna of his own backyard.
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January 27, 2015byPatrick Randall
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