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Creative Technology Day, Quick Presentations 2Thursday 2 October, 2014, 7 minutes between 1430 and 1530 Central St Martins, London, UK

Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs

Stella WisdomCurator, Digital Research

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How BL Labs works…

Audienceidea

Experiment OutputsData

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Mixing the Library: The DJ & the Digital Collection

Dan Norton, Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: http://alturl.com/284zw

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Curatorial for Library metadata

Geo location

http://datatales.artefacto.org.uk/

TimelineSlide show

India Office metadata

Sara-Wingate-Gray and Kate Lomax

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Victorian Meme MachineBob Nicholson of Edge Hill University

Blog posting http://goo.gl/iJy0aTYouTube: http://goo.gl/mBTlk2

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1,020,418 images!1 million images snipped from books that need labelling and using!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/Since Dec 13 > 190 m views > 5% taggedLots of creative uses!

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The “Off the Map” CompetitionStella Wisdom, Curator, Digital Researchhttp://offthemap.gamecity.org/

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Off the Map Competition

A challenge for videogame design students to turn historic maps and engravings from the British Library collections into a 3D environment using Crytek's CRYENGINE software.

Pudding Lane Productions, a team of six second-year students from De Montfort University, Leicester, won first prize.

Their work was showcased at GameCity, an annual festival of videogame culture.

http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)

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Gothic theme, to tie-in with the Library's Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination (3 October 2014 - 27 January 2015) exhibition

Three sub themes: •Fonthill Abbey, home 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

New Off the Map competition for 2014

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Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823

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Harry Clarke illustration for Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Masque of the Red Death

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View of the coast by Whitby, Francis Jukes, 1804

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Sounds and music clips provided: http://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/Sound-effects

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Student team blogs & YouTube clips for the 2014 Off the Map competition: http://www.theflyingbuttress.co.uk/

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Student team blogs & YouTube clips for the 2014 Off the Map competition: “Gothulus Rift” from the University of South Wales who are creating a game called Nix utilising Oculus Rift technology. In Nix the player is swimming underwater near the ruin of Fonthill Abbey and searching for glowing orbs, by finding the orbs you rebuild the tower Their blog: http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk/

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Thanks

Mahendra Mahey

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@mahendra_mahey

Stella Wisdom

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@miss_wisdom