TIMA

TIMA short for "TIMA is my association" is a citizen science project I currently work on. The goal of the project is to build a large database of associations. To get the associations we need your help. Everyone who want can go to our website and start. First you need to select a language and then you get a word and asked to type in your association of said word. For each association you will receive points and a new word.

Besides the website we are in the process of building some apps. The first and most basic app follows the design concept of the website and gives you words and asks for your associations. In a later phase we have plan for apps that will have a more game like approach. One will be based on the concept of the German TV-show Familien-Duell. I will write more to that in a later post.

In addition to the collection of association we also publish them. On the website is a list of all the words and their association with some graphs and statistics. We have also an extensive API, over which the data can be exported. In addition we have included OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). This is a low-barrier mechanism the expose metadata for repositories. Our base URL is https://tima.jnphilipp.org/oai2/.

This is one of the website I mentioned in my previous post about Bootstrap. The website is written in Python using the Django web framework. You can checkout the code on GitHub.