Harald Eberle

sMapshot - The participative time machine

The Vorarlberg State Library uses retro-digitisation to facilitate long-term access to its image collections and makes the content available to all in a user-friendly way on its PHAIDRA-based repository, „volare“. Traditional resources and methods are limited when it comes to processing large volumes of high-quality data, so new and innovative methods are being explored to generate descriptions and metadata more efficiently. The sMapshot crowdsourcing platform allows digital image files to be georeferenced to a geographical location and landscape images to be positioned on a virtual 3D globe. This geoinformation makes it possible to calculate place names such as cities, districts or mountains.