ARTigo, a Citizen Science initiative, democratizes the access to discipline-specific regulations and standards of art history by harnessing the collective intelligence of participants since 2010. The project illuminates the notion that cultural heritage is a product of not only experts but also the everyday human experience.
As a collaborative platform, ARTigo is an example of open university research in which you participate as a player. As an interactive web application, ARTigo employs *Games With a Purpose*, challenging players to annotate images using visual or textual tags within a specified timeframe. These tags can be freely chosen, describe the image or convey emotions and associations. The aim is to collect as many points as possible by matching the tags.
Since December 2023, the game - developed by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich’s Institute for Art History and Institute for Informatics - can now also be played and experienced with the open-content works from the Belvedere's collection.
