Presentation for the British Library Labs Symposium on 30th October 2017 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-library-labs-symposium-2017-tickets-36767843610

1. Places of inspiration: playing and making in the library
30/10/2017
Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator
@miss_wisdom
Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/

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The Off the Map Competition
• A new type of collaboration
• Explores how British Library digital collections
can be used in creative ways
• Engagement with new audiences
• Opportunity for students in the UK to
showcase their talents to industry

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C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6

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John Leake, An exact surveigh of the streets lanes and churches contained within the
ruines of the City of London, 1667. Maps Crace port 2.58

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2013 winning team:
Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort University, Leicester
Created an interpretation of 17th Century London
http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)

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2014 winning team: Gothulus Rift, University of South Wales
Created a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix using Oculus Rift
YouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw

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2015 Winning Game:
“The Wondering Lands of Alice”
Team Off our Rockers, De Montfort University in Leicester
YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/7bwx4uUnbV4

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Off the Map 2016 1st Place:
“The Tempest” by Team Quattro, De Montfort University, Leicester
YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/0lzpEFgpk3Y

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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
Interactive Writer-in-Residence 2014/15

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Lines in the Ice - Seeking the Northwest Passage
British Library Exhibition
November 2014 to April 2015

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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
Sir John Franklin Lady Franklin

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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
HMS Terror and HMS Erebus were lost on the ill-fated Franklin expedition in
search of the Northwest Passage in 1845

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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
Isaak Scinbank, the ‘Arctic Angler’ of Milldale
http://onmywifesback.tumblr.com/post/100107314408/scinbank

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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2014/11/the-salmon-
book-conservation-in-reverse-.html

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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
Isaak Scinbank’s ship The Otranto

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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back

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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
The Digital Cairn

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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
Events & Music
https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/sets/songs-from-on-my-wifes-back

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Sarah Cole, Poetic Places
Creative-Entrepreneur-In-Residence
http://www.poeticplaces.uk/

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What is Poetic Places?
• A free, native app for Android and iOS devices.
• Bring poetic depictions of places into the physical world,
helping people to encounter literature and heritage in
relevant locations, accompanied by materials drawn from
cultural heritage collections.
• Brings literature and heritage into everyday life in
unexpected moments. Serendipitous discovery; not tours.
• Browse the poems and places without being in situ.

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http://handeyesociety.com/wordplay/
WordPlay is a free
festival celebrating the
most interesting uses of
writing and words in
contemporary games.
Each year there is a
curated game showcase,
talks by creators, and
ways for the public to
learn about making
games.
The next WordPlay will
be on November 18 2017
at the Toronto Reference
Library!

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http://handeyesociety.com/event/wordplay-london-photo-video-recap/
WordPlay 2016 was held on the 19th of
November at the British Library in
London as part of International Games
Day @ your Library.

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Odyssey Jam, https://itch.io/jam/odysseyjam, #odysseyjam
This jam was organised to tie in with the Read Watch Play online
reading group, which had a watery theme in March 2017.

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http://games.london/london-games-festival-2018/

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https://www.bl.uk/events/off-the-page-literature-and-games
http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2017/04/off-the-page-literature-and-games-.html
http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2017/04/off-the-page-playing-and-reading-in-the-city.html

30. The Infinite Library
InteractiveFictionSummer School
17– 21July2017
www.bl.uk/courses

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https://thelakescraftproject.wordpress.com/
Lakescraft is an AHRC funded project that uses the Minecraft platform to engage
schoolchildren with the literary and cultural landscape of the Lake District.
Using data from the Corpus of Lake District writing at Lancaster University, to
create an interdisciplinary educational resource that enables pupils to undertake
activities in an accurately modelled digital 3D environment.

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29th October to 4th November 2017
http://games.ala.org/international-games-week
http://games.ala.org/gaming-at-the-british-library

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https://www.bl.uk/events/playing-games-in-international-games-week

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http://www.librarycamp.co.uk/

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https://www.bl.uk/events/game-library-camp
http://gamesandglams.blogspot.co.uk/

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Game Library Camp 2017
https://artefacto.org.uk/game-library-camp-2017

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https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2016/september/living-knowledge-network-formed-by-the-british-library
Living Knowledge Network

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Web: http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship
Blog:
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
Email: digitalresearch@bl.uk
Twitter: : @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital