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George Eastman House taps Clickworker for iconic global crowdsourcing project

ROCHESTER, N.Y.- George Eastman House the world’s oldest photography museum founded in 1947 on the estate of Kodak founder George Eastman, and Clickworker, an innovator in the global crowdsourcing and workforce solutions space, announce the kick-off of a large-scale, iconic crowdsourcing project. The project involves photo-tagging of more than 400,000 images from George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. Utilizing Clickworker’s innovative crowdsourcing technology, George Eastman House is able to bring archives into the digital age, making them easily accessible to the public — in many instances, for the very first time. To meet the needs of this expansive project, Clickworker leverages its global crowd of more than 115,000 to efficiently tag and catalog the museum’s vast collection of images from around the world. “Clickworker is excited to help the renowned George Eastma