Videotagging game "Waisda"

On the research blog of "images for the future" (a project by beeld en geluid, kennisland and 4 other institutions), i found a posting bout the evaluation of the videotagging game "waisda" ('what is that' in a southern-dutch dialect). Users got points if they used the same words as other people to describe a video. A nice way of crowdsourcing! It was quite a succes, according to their own posting.

dutch biographical portal

The Volkskrant came out with an article today about a new website: the Dutch Biographical Portal. It's a collection from several formerly "pillarized" archives of 40.000 biographies of people living on within the current borders of the Netherlands between 634 and 2005. Every single one of them meant "something" to the country, for example: journalists, actors, politicians, etc. It's a new way of easy public access to this selection of biographical information and a new node in the dutch archival network.