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Lines in the Ice: an InteractiveWriter-in-Residence at the British Library
Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator
@miss_wisdom
Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
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Digital Scholarship at British Library
“The production, use and integration of digital content, services and tools to facilitate scholarship and research. It allows research areas to be investigated in new ways, using new tools, leading to new discoveries and analysis to generate new understanding”
Adam Farquhar Head of Digital Scholarship
Created in 2010, the department works to enable….
• production of digital content• sharing and integration of digital content• wider collaboration and
contribution around digital content• complex analysis & facilitation of
new discoveries
Created in 2010, the department works to enable….
• production of digital content• sharing and integration of digital content• wider collaboration and
contribution around digital content• complex analysis & facilitation of
new discoveries
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British Library one million images on Flickr - coverage in the media!
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David Normalhttp://www.davidnormal.com/
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Burning Man Festival
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Burning Man Festival
David Normal created light boxes around theBurning man, using the British Library’s Flickr Images
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The Crossroads of Curiosity Installation at The British LibraryUntil 8 November 2015 http://www.crossroadsofcuriosity.com/
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Off the Map videogame competition for 2013
Three sub themes:• Stonehenge, including a proposed plan to rebuild
Stonehenge• Pyramids at Giza• 17th Century London, including a survey map made
months after the Great Fire of 1666
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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 who created an interpretation of 17th Century Londonhttp://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk/http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)
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Gothic theme, tie-in with the Library's exhibitionTerror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination 3 October 2014 - 20 January 2015
• Fonthill AbbeyHome of William Beckford, author of Vathek
• Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death
• Whitby and its association with Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula
Off the Map 2014
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Off the Map 2014 Winners
• 2014 winning team: Gothulus RiftUniversity of South Wales
• Created a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix using Oculus Rift
• Blog: http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk
• YouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw
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http://youtu.be/NzzQLaltmVA
Off the Map videoclips of 2013 & 2014 winning entries
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Alice’s Adventures Off the Map
Part of the British Library's celebrations
for the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland
http://gamecity.org/alices-adventures-off-the-map/
Off the Map 2015
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Some work in progress: The Wondering Lands of Alice
Team Off our rockers:Amber Jamieson, Braden May, Dan Bullock, Denzil Forde, Freddy Canton & Luke Day https://youtu.be/uuG5sAtEZzs
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http://blackcrownproject.tumblr.com/
Rob Sherman - Black Crown Project
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Rob Sherman - Black Crown Project
“Black Crown represents Random House’s ambition to push the boundaries in online storytelling, experiment with new business models and launch a new author in a groundbreaking way,”
Dan Franklin, Digital Publisher
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Rob Sherman - Black Crown Project
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Rob Sherman
http://www.sheltercontent.org.uk/twine/The%20Spare%20Set.html
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Sophia George winner of a BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in 2012 First games designer in residence at the Victoria & Albert Museum
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Sophia George in her studio at the Victoria & Albert Museum
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Sophia George’s The Strawberry Thief Gamehttp://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/artists-residence-va/the-strawberry-thief-ipad-game
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Lines in the Ice - Seeking the Northwest PassageBritish Library Free Exhibition14 November 2014 to 19 April 2015
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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Backhttp://onmywifesback.tumblr.com/
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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
“A false multimedia history of Isaak Scinbank, the ‘Arctic Angler’ of Mill Dale’”
http://onmywifesback.tumblr.com/post/100107314408/scinbank
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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
Isaak Scinbank’s ship The Otranto
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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zx-tSVwChxXU.kbi88i7exR_k
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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Backhttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2014/11/the-salmon-book-conservation-in-reverse-.html
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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Backhttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2015/04/the-house-of-lords-commoners-and-everybody-else.html
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“As you can see, Zoe and Royston's work on my book is unequivocally art, not merely conservation. On display in the Lines In The Ice exhibition until the middle of April, our book sits alongside the 'true' artefacts of polar exploration almost imperceptibly, tricking the public without malice and camouflaging its story, its biography, amongst the degradation upon which the Library is built. In doing so it hijacks a small, respectful amount of the value, respect and meaning which the very old are due. The loveliness of this deception will be amplified when I finish Isaak's story, some day; then, the book will accessioned into the Library's archives, where it will begin to truly disintegrate rather than just playing at it. One day even further in the future, the book will come back to its birthplace in the Conservation Centre, that squat building full of silent discourse and argument with the past, and plead its case.”
Rob Shermanhttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2015/04/the-house-of-lords-commoners-and-everybody-else.htm
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“I have so enjoyed reading about Rob Sherman's residency. I, along with 4 other artists, am working with Somerset Heritage Centre in Taunton, exploring and making work about the collections stores. I discovered the conservation department, and like Rob have been so impressed by not only the books and paper and parchment and bindings, but the depth of knowledge of conservators and curators alike.”
Comment by Jacy Wall on Rob Sherman’s Collection Care blog posthttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2015/04/the-house-of-lords-commoners-and-everybody-else.htm
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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s BackThe Digital Cairn
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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
Rob’s event in the gallery on Saturday 17th January was the 2nd most visited day of Lines in the Ice with 926 visitors
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Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back events
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