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The British Library Digital Scholarship Department supports researchers through digitization and innovative use of digital collections. It curates digital research data and engages users through events, blogs, and social media. Some of its projects include the Off the Map game design competition using digital collections, Playing Beowulf educational game tool, Litcraft exploring literary landscapes in Minecraft, and Rob Sherman's transmedia residency on the Franklin expedition. It also runs game jams like Odyssey Jam and Gothic Novel Jam to encourage creative works using public domain images.
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Talk for Games Fictioning
- 1. British Library Games Collaborations Talk for: Games Fictioning at Goldsmiths Library 9th November 2018 Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator @miss_wisdom Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
- 2. www.bl.uk 2 Founded in 2010, the Digital Scholarship Department at British Library supports researchers and staff to make innovative use of our digital collections and data. We are a group of cross disciplinary experts in the areas of digitisation, librarianship, digital history & humanities, computer and data science, looking at how technology is transforming research, and in turn, our services. @BL_DigiSchol
- 3. Meet the Digital Scholarship Team Main Activities: • Staff training • Promoting Digital Scholarship within BL • Curating digital research data • Project management • Engagement with users • Creating and sharing online content with other libraries and research centres • Communication: events, blogging, social media
- 4. • Off the Map Competition • Playing Beowulf • Litcraft • Rob Sherman’s transmedia residency • Interactive Fiction Summer School • Odyssey Jam 2017 • Gothic Novel Jam 2018 • AdventureX • Games & GLAMs What I’ll talk about today:
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- 7. www.bl.uk 7 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
- 8. www.bl.uk 8 C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6
- 9. www.bl.uk 9 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
- 10. www.bl.uk 10 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)
- 11. www.bl.uk 11 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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- 13. www.bl.uk 13 2015 Winning Game: “The Wondering Lands of Alice” Team Off our Rockers, De Montfort University in Leicester YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/7bwx4uUnbV4
- 14. www.bl.uk 14 Off the Map 2016 1st Place: “The Tempest” by Team Quattro, De Montfort University, Leicester YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/0lzpEFgpk3Y
- 15. www.bl.uk 15 Off the Map 2016 2nd Place: ‘Midsummer’ by Tom Battey, London College of Communication Blog: http://tombattey.com/design/developing-interactive-dialogue-in- midsummer/ YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/sz-IKvp62NI Download the game: http://tombattey.com/portfolio-items/midsummer/
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- 17. www.bl.uk 17 Playing Beowulf Project with University College London Institute of Education, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK. Developed a game-authoring tool based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, for use by schools, universities, curators and library visitors. http://darecollaborative.net/2015/03/11/playing-beowulf-gaming-the-library/ http://creativeedutech.com/products/missionmaker-beowulf/
- 18. www.bl.uk 18 Litcraft uses the Minecraft platform to explore and better understand literary landscapes; e.g. Treasure Island Each map is recreated from the maps published with each text, hand-crafted and scaled to provide a fun world, that permits both exploration and building tasks. https://chronotopiccartography.wordpress.com/litcraft/
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- 20. www.bl.uk 20 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Interactive Writer-in-Residence 2014/15
- 21. www.bl.uk 21 Lines in the Ice - Seeking the Northwest Passage British Library Free Exhibition November 2014 to April 2015
- 22. www.bl.uk 22 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Sir John Franklin Lady Franklin
- 23. www.bl.uk 23 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
- 24. www.bl.uk 24 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Isaak Scinbank, the ‘Arctic Angler’ of Milldale http://onmywifesback.tumblr.com/post/100107314408/scinbank
- 25. www.bl.uk 25 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2014/11/the-salmon- book-conservation-in-reverse-.html
- 26. www.bl.uk 26 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back The Digital Cairn
- 27. www.bl.uk 27 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Events & Music https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/sets/songs-from-on-my-wifes-back
- 28. www.bl.uk 28 Infinite Journeys Interactive Fiction Summer School 23 – 27 July 2018 https://www.bl.uk/events/infinite-journeys-interactive-fiction-summer-school
- 29. www.bl.uk 29 Next projects I’m about to discuss use Public Domain images from the Microsoft Partnership Digitisation Project 2006-8 • 68,000 volumes (47,000+ titles) published in the 19th century mostly in English • Excluded authors active 1850-1901 and who died after 1936 • Output: 25 million pages
- 30. www.bl.uk 30 The illustrations were extracted algorithmically from the digitised books: 30 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> - <mets:mets xmlns:xsi="http://ww w.w3.org/2001/XML Schema-instance" xmlns:mets="http://w ww.loc.gov/METS/" xsi:schemaLocation= "http://www.loc.gov/ METS/ http://www.loc.gov/ standards/mets/ver sion18/mets.xsd info:lc/xmlns/premi s-v2 Image snipped out Algorithmically From ALTO XML Image taken from page 207 of 'London and its Environs. A picturesque survey of the metropolis and the suburbs ... Translated by Henry Frith. With ... illustrations' ALTO XML
- 32. www.bl.uk 32 The illustrations were uploaded to Flickr and albums were created through crowd-sourced tagging
- 33. Odyssey Jam 2017 https://itch.io/jam/odysseyjam Writing challenge tied in with Read Watch Play, a partnership of libraries worldwide encouraging themed discussions of books, films, music and games, each month they have a theme and for March 2017 it was #waterread.
- 34. Odyssey Jam 2017 entries https://itch.io/jam/odysseyjam/entries We encouraged entrants to make use of the digitised images on Flickr that The British Library had released under a creative commons license. Some games used these images, e.g. No One and 108 suitors.
- 35. 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein. A perfect opportunity to run a gothic novel themed challenge. Gothic Novel Jam with Read Watch Play; participants to make something creative inspired by the gothic novel genre. By the 31st July upload or share it on the itch.io Gothic Novel Jam site. Entries invited to include stories, poetry, art, games, music, films, pictures, soundscapes, or any other type of digital media response. We wanted participants to use images from the British Library Flickr account as inspiration
- 36. Gothic Novel Jam 2018 We received 46 entries submitted by people from all around the world including UK, Australia, America and France. https://itch.io/jam/gothic-novel-jam/entries
- 37. We encouraged entrants to use the digitised images on Flickr that The British Library had released as Public Domain. As a glow brings out a haze by Eldridge Misnomer is a lovely example of how these illustrations are used as a key part of the storytelling.
- 38. www.bl.uk 38 For 2018 International Games Week the British Library is hosting The Narrative Games Convention: AdventureX 10-11 November 2018 http://adventurexpo.org/ https://youtu.be/PyJl5stFteI
- 40. www.bl.uk 40 A forum for those who are interested in games, cultural heritage and GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/games-and-glams https://twitter.com/games_glams
- 41. www.bl.uk 41 Web: http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/ Email: stella.wisdom@bl.uk Twitter: @miss_wisdom #bldigital
Editor's Notes
- Set up in 2010 the team was formed as a way of dedicating focus on the changing research landscape in the digital realm. Now embedded in collection areas, and as you’ll see later, joining the library explicitly as part of major digitisation projects. Main activities: Getting content in digital form and online Collaborations, Competitions & Awards Digital research support and guidance
- 60 seconds The Library digitised 68,000 predominantly 19th century books from our collections a few years ago (around 2.7 % of the physical total in that period). You can view them from our catalogue or read them on your <click>IPad via the Historical Books app developed by BiblioLabs. There are 22 million individual page images, along with full text scans of these images, all of which contain untold quantity of useful data such as names of people, places, historical events, dates. with no restrictions on use by Microsoft So the question became then, what next? What can 68,000 books tell us?
- 60 seconds As the books were scanned for text, this had a fortunate ‘side effect’ the software not only tries to detect the text on the page but also where the images might be. There had already been some interest in the images from the community of researchers. It seemed easy to extract them. s part of the Labs competition, Matt Prior attended one of our hack events and when examining our book data and was very interested in the images from the books. Meanwhile the algorithm that Ben had written to snip the images from the OCR scans was still churning away, how many were there going to be? The Mechanical Curator could publish them every hour, but was there somewhere we could put them all for people to browse when they wanted. Importantly if we did put them somewhere, could we get people to help us add descriptions to the individual images making them infinitely more discoverable.]
- With an algorithm by Ben O’Steen we snipped out images from digitised books and put them on to Flickr on December 13 2013, there were over a million, but the problem we had was that we knew which books they came from (author/dates), but we didn’t’ have any information about the images. By releasing them onto flickr, we have got people to start tagging them and using them in very creative ways. Hosting them internally was not an option and there was not sufficient metadata to put them on Wikipedia. Flickr seemed the obvious option as it is a platform that can support high usage, did not require metadata, allowed tagging and it is free for public domain images.