CoverGuess is sort of a game. It shows you various book covers and you have to describe them in words (i.e. tagging). If you guess the same things as other players you get points. You may wonder why Library Thing is doing this – They say that though the primary goal is to have fun, it’s also to build up a database of cover descriptions, to answer questions like "Do you have that book with bride on the bicycle?".
The project is inspired by Google’s Image Labeler. All the data is released under a Creative-Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License, and will be available in feed form. Non-profit entities like libraries will be able to use it free and on the same terms it will be licensed to Book Stores, but with sales less than 10M$.
You can know more about the project through the official announcement
Via @ethomsen Elizabeth Thomsen on NobleNet
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