A game with a purpose to access Europe's cultural treasure

Jörg Schlötterer; Christin Seifert; Lisa Wagner; Michael Granitzer

A game with a purpose to access Europe's cultural treasure

Jörg Schlötterer, Christin Seifert, Lisa Wagner, Michael Granitzer

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Abstract

Europeana, the European aggregator for digital cultural heritage objects spends huge effort on providing access to the vast collection of Europe's Culture. While the content has been made available online, it still needs to be disseminated. We propose a "games with a purpose" approach to engage people with this tremendous collection and make them discover European culture. This approach is implemented by a question and answering system, in which players create questions that are answered by specific Europeana resources. Other players can then use a search interface to Europeana to find the particular resource that is needed to answer the question. This concept provides a low level entrance to cultural heritage for end users. Moreover it reveals human search strategies on Europeana that can be exploited to support and improve the search experience of other users on Europeana and helps to identify objects of interest by analyzing usage data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	GamifIR 2015
Subtitle of host publication	Second International Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval
Editors	Frank Hopfgartner, Gabriella Kazai, Udo Kruschwitz, Michael Meder
Publisher	CEUR
Pages	13-18
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd International Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval, GamifIR 2015 - Vienna, Austria Duration: 29 Mar 2015 → 2 Apr 2015 Conference number: 2 http://gamifir.com/previous-events/gamifir-2015/

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Name	CEUR workshop proceedings
Publisher	Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule
Volume	1345
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

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Conference	2nd International Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval, GamifIR 2015
Abbreviated title	GamifIED 2015
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	29/03/15 → 2/04/15
Other	Co-located with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2015
Internet address	http://gamifir.com/previous-events/gamifir-2015/

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Schlötterer, J, Seifert, C, Wagner, L & Granitzer, M 2015, A game with a purpose to access Europe's cultural treasure. in F Hopfgartner, G Kazai, U Kruschwitz & M Meder (eds), GamifIR 2015: Second International Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval. CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 1345, CEUR, pp. 13-18, 2nd International Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval, GamifIR 2015, Vienna, Austria, 29/03/15. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1345/>

A game with a purpose to access Europe's cultural treasure. / Schlötterer, Jörg; Seifert, Christin; Wagner, Lisa et al.
GamifIR 2015: Second International Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval. ed. / Frank Hopfgartner; Gabriella Kazai; Udo Kruschwitz; Michael Meder. CEUR, 2015. p. 13-18 (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 1345).

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