by Olivier Amprimo - 02/16/2009 - Estimated read times for this article: 4 mins. 03 secs.

As some of you already know, I’ve recently moved to Singapore to join the Digital Resources and Services team of the National Library Board as “Assistant Director”.
The DRS is a charge of all digital resources for both the National Library (a reference library) and the Public Libraries. I bring in the experience and insight I […]

by Olivier Amprimo - 11/21/2009 - Estimated read times for this article: 0 mins. 15 secs.

Social computing can be fun too when mixed with human computation gaming and help sort some serious operational issues.
As an example is a link to a presentation of a pilot to test human computation gaming to improve OCR correction of non-digital born content, in Singapore via Facebook.
The game developped by National University of Singapore Computation […]

by Olivier Amprimo - 01/25/2010 - Estimated read times for this article: 8 mins. 46 secs.

Tonight I have an immense desire to blog. It’s been months I have not been blogging, but today some information that reached me via my Yahoo Pipes and Twitter folks pushed me to blog. In fact what I want to share now is something that I had in mind for quite some time already. I […]