Waisda? a video labeling game

Video about the project Waisda?. Waisda? is a Web application that provides a multiplayer video labeling game. It is based on the principles of the ESP image labeling game coined by Louis von Ahn, where two or more users compete with each other by entering tags. In Waisda? players score points by entering the same tag as one of the other players in a ten second interval. As a result each video that is played in the game is annotated with tags that are anchored to a time point in the video. Waisda? was initiated by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the VU University Amsterdam in the context of the Dutch project Images for the Future and the European research project PrestoPRIME. The software was pioneered in two pilots using historic archive material as well as recent TV episodes from Dutch broadcasters (KRO and NCRV). The two pilots together resulted in more than a million tags de-scribing thousands of videos. An open source version of Waisda? enables maintainers of a