The document proposes developing a word/language game app to generate user contributions and participation on Oxford Global Languages sites. The app would utilize existing Oxford Dictionaries content and have players create new content or qualify existing content. It would ideally include social components and be scalable to new languages. The target market is language lovers and word game players. If successful, the games could help develop robust data sets for digitally endangered languages. The timeline is vendor selection in January 2016 and completion by April 2016, with a $15-35k budget depending on features. An ideal partner would have game development experience, understand language engineering, and offer a creative, fun, and differentiating idea.

1. Oxford Words Game
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4. OxfordWords Game
The opportunity: to build a fun, engaging
word/language game app to be used in connection
with the Oxford Global Languages initiative
• Utilizing existing language/dictionary content from the Oxford
Dictionaries program
• Players generate language data, either through creating content
(building definitions, synonyms, word pairs, etc.) or qualifying
existing content (linking, coding, etc.) harvested on back end
• Ideally has a social component to build a community of players
crowdsouring each other’s contributions
• A scalable game framework and tool—As we launch a new
language website, we’d like to rapidly release versions in that
language as part of the program

5. OxfordWords Game
• Target market: language lovers; word-game
players; local-language enthusiasts
• OUP resources:
• API feeds available for all OUP base data
• Access to OUP’s language engineering group to assist
with data needs
• Ideally build out the game framework/tool in two
language versions to show it’s scalable—English and
one of the other language for which APIs available

6. ProjectImportance
• Project Context: If successful, the language games will
be a vehicle through which we generate user
contributions and community participation in the Oxford
Global Languages sites, a key component to the success
of developing robust structured data sets for digitally
endangered languages.
• Strategic Benefits to Start-up:
• Participation in high-profile, mission-based Oxford Global
Languages initiative
• Potential ongoing relationship as OUP developer
• Free access to high-quality, multi-language APIs for
additional use

7. ProjectDetails
• Project timeline: vendor selection—January 2016;
completion date—April 2016
• Internal project approval: light (Dictionaries
management team)
• Total budget: $15-35k, depending on feature set and
scalability
• Ideal partner:
• Experience developing engaging game apps, ideally with
content development elements
• Basic understanding of language engineering
• Highly creative with a fun idea that differentiates the app
from the standard word game generators