articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . july 2016 tagasauris industry crowdsourcing semantic web media and entertainment social production founded december 2010 headquarters new york new york usa services media annotation semantic enrichment named entity recognition video website http tagasauris.com tagasauris is a technology startup company that was founded in new york city in december 2010 . tagasauris provides media annotation services and uses a combination of crowdsourcing gamification machine intelligence and semantics to create and discover key tags for characteristics of the media object that is being annotated . 1 tagasauris used to provide photo tagging services to magnum photos allowing the digital archive of magnum to be searchable . the project allowed volunteers to get early access to the untagged photo archive of magnum photos and provides descriptive semantic tags to the images . 2 3 4 5 6 a notable accomplishment for tagasauris achieved through a combination of machine and human intelligence was the discovery of a set of lost photos in the magnum archive from the shooting of the movie american graffiti 7 while the crowdsourced workers could easily identify the individuals e.g. george lucas ron howard richard dreyfuss and mackenzie phillips shown in separate photos from one shooting the underlying machine processes connected these together to see what is common among them . the film american graffiti was one of the suggestions . 8 tagasauris found nearly two dozen unkeyworded photos taken on the film s set . computers couldn t id humans in the photo but humans couldn t know the context . 9 references edit bud mathaisel and galen gruman . getting past the hype of gamification pwc technology forecast fall 2012 . estrin james . crowd sourcing the magnum archive new york times july 26 2011 . russeth andrew . good morning creative thinking edition new york observer august 29 2011 . magnum appelle taguer ses archives le monde august 15 2011 french jarvis alice azania who what where magnum is hoping the modern crowd will help them identify a historic archive the independent august 5 2011 grundvig james graphing the spillway of big data interview with tagasauris ceo todd carter huffington post . october 17 2012 benenson fred . hidden treasure lost photos from the set of american graffiti wired july 2011 . mims christopher . how six degrees of kevin bacon unearthed lost photos from american graffiti technology review june 20 2011 . weise karen . humans plus computers equals better crowdsourcing bloomberg businessweek november 10 2011 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tagasauris & oldid 727992118 categories crowdsourcingimage organizersinformation technology companies of the united stateshidden categories articles with french language external linksorphaned articles from july 2016all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 july 2016 at 12 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view