August 1, 2026
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Readers Save Legacy Library Content by Crowdsourcing Metadata Games

Bianca Gelli09 mins

The British Library warned: by 2020, legacy content will remain undigitized and in danger of becoming inaccessible to future generations.

Universities, libraries, museums and archives own large amounts of undigitized material in the form of photographs, audio recordings and films that are at serious risk of being lost because of the wear time has put on them. Some are well-documented and just need to be digitized and tagged accordingly, but the problem is that a lot of the materials have little to no description in them. The job of tagging them requires collective input by multiple people to guarantee that the tags are as comprehensive and impartial as they possibly can. It a costly and time consuming task, and it cannot be accurately done by recognition software.

The task of proper tagging is of utmost importance for future access, so is there a way we can motivate people to contribute to the preservation of legacy content while we still have time? Well, games of course!

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Introducing ReadSocial App: A Revolutionary Way to Read

Taavi Lindmaa24 mins

In conjunction with the release of Gabe Zichermann and Joselin Linder’s newest book, The Gamification Revolution, also comes the release of ReadSocial App: the world’s first gamified social reading application by Dopa Labs

ReadSocial App creates social communities around books, allowing readers to connect directly with authors, discuss hot topics from the book, and deepen their understanding about the book’s ideas.

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Oxford University Press is Bringing Gamification to Classic Novels

Ivan Kuo22 mins

Oxford University Press has announced a partnership with game developer SecretBuilders to promote the publisher’s “50 Great Reads Before 15” initiative. The partnership will produce a series of web and mobile games meant to transform classics like Alice in Wonderland and Macbeth into interactive learning experiences for kids and teens under 15. Laura Pearson, General Manager of Oxford’s American…

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Gamification Internship Opportunity

admin01 mins

Want to learn more about gamification & help write the definitive books, guides and research on the subject? We’re looking for someone with strong research and writing skills that can commit to 10-20 hrs a week (varying) between now and March to help investigate and curate the tremendous amount of knowledge being generated in gamification….

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