http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/authors/patrick-randall/ Recent content in Patrick Randall on Ariadne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/74/randall/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/74/randall/ Purposeful Gaming: Work as Play In 2011, Microtask and the National Library of Finland launched DigitalKoot [1], a project that used computer games to correct faulty Optical Character Recognition (OCR) outputs for historic newspapers. The project was an overwhelming success; in less than a year, thousands of volunteers had completed over 2.5 million tasks [2]. The greater success of DigitalKoot, however, was the introduction of gamification to non-profit digital preservation.