Electrifying our cultural heritage
Digitalkoot is a joint project run by the National Library of Finland and Microtask. Our goal is to index the library's enormous archives so that they are searchable on the Internet. This will enable everyone to easily access our cultural heritage.
You can help us by playing games.
Playing games in Digitalkoot fixes mistakes in our index of old Finnish newspapers. This greatly increases the accuracy of text-based searches of the newspaper archives.
Log in to play!
In Mole Bridge you write the words where the computer failed. Watch the tutorial!
Log in to play!
In Mole Hunt you try to identify words the computer has misread. Watch the tutorial!
We need your help
Most of the information in the library's newspaper archives has already been copied into computer databases using computerized text recognition. The problem is that computers fail to recognize all the words. Especially when the quality of the source material is poor, the results need to be fixed by hand. This requires a lot of manual work.
At the moment, when you play games in Digitalkoot you help correct words. Later this year you will also be able to help structure the documents and tag images.
Background
The National Library of Finland is the biggest and oldest scientific library in Finland. It is responsible for preserving our cultural heritage and ensuring that people can access it. The National Library has already copied about 4 million pages into computer databases, including newspapers, maps and other valuable documents.
In order to make this material accessible, it must be easily searchable. By participating in Digitalkoot you are making Finnish culture more accessible for all us.
Original scanned article





