Poetic Places by Stella Wisdom
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Poetic Places is a free mobile app that brings together poetic depictions of places with archive materials from literature and heritage collections. By using GPS data, it allows users to encounter poems and related historical information and images about locations they visit in an unexpected, serendipitous manner rather than through structured tours. The app draws from open collections and public domain works, and aims to inspire users by creatively marrying texts with images and context about the poems, poets, and places in a low-cost, sustainable way. The project looks to further expand its multimedia content and crowdsourced information over time.
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- 3. 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 archive collections. • Brings literature and heritage into everyday life in unexpected moments. Serendipitous discovery; not tours. • Browse the poems and places without being in situ. • A low-cost, low-complexity project to inspire.
- 5. Technical Requirements An app-building platform that: • allows geofencing/GPS-triggered events • allows push notifications • creates Native apps (for iOS and Android) • is media-friendly • is affordable http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2016/01/finding-a-platform-for-poetic-places.html
- 9. Content & Curation Text (poems & prose) • Drew from existing anthologies and resources (i.e. Poetry Atlas, old anthologies). • ~30 entries; 5 licensed. Images • An opportunity to highlight open collections and out-of-copyright works. • Contemporary works: old images for old poems. • 1–5 images per entry; 5 licensed. • Copyright clearance time consuming, expensive. Context • Researched poem, poet, place to find meaningful/unusual/evocative narratives. • Contextualising, marrying text and images. • History lessons.
- 11. British Library one million images on Flickr - coverage in the media!
- 13. Content & Curation Text (poems & prose) • Drew from existing anthologies and resources (i.e. Poetry Atlas). • ~30 entries; 5 licensed. Images • An opportunity to highlight open collections and out-of-copyright works. • Contemporary works: old images for old poems; Flickr. • 1–5 images per entry; 5 licensed. Context • Researched poem, poet, place to find meaningful/unusual/evocative narratives. • Contextualising, marrying text and images. • History lessons.
- 16. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
- 17. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 This poem was written by William Wordsworth at around 6am on 31st July 1802 ( contrary to its title) as he travelled to Dover with his sister Dorothy. The bridge the poem was written upon is not the Westminster Bridge that stands here today, which was opened in 1862. Palace of Westminster as we know it was built 1840–1870 after a fire destroyed much of its Medieval predecessor.
- 18. Parliament, River and Bridge, Jose M. Vazquez, 2012, Flickr
- 19. A View of Westminster Bridge and the Abbey from the South Side, William Anderson,1818, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- 21. Points of Interest • Creative Use of Open Collections • Cross-Silo • Permissions-Busting • Sum of the Parts • Low Budget • Quick to Create • Replicable • Demystifying • Low Budget • Quick to Create • Replicable • Demystifying • Sustainable • Multimedia • GPS, Bluetooth Beacons, QR Codes • Crowdsourced Information • Context • Expandable
- 27. What next?
- 30. Try it out.
Editor's Notes
- You may be recorded. How many have installed?
- funded CW CEIR Collaboration between Digital Scholarship Dept, T/I, I am TIME/IMAGE and my day job best described as…
- Aims developed quickly at project start Refined over project, flexible mindset Last point: to achieve this chose (needed) to use DIY app platform…
- Ref blog
- Many platforms, various problems GoodBarber, Corsican Drag-and-Drop with capacity for complexity
- Shop owners? Mangled the system
- Not too pricey!
- London!
- Fabulous.
- There has been since considerable news coverage in the press about the million images released on Flickr commons. What was amazing is how this became a headline overnight, following a blogpost by Ben O’Steen and few tweets about it. without any official Library press release, http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html <click>The Independent, <click>Wired magazine, <click>The Guardian, <click>Popular Science and the <click>Mail online to name a very few.
- Utilise creative commons.
- The ‘trinity’ Copyright for apps particular pain, not on the forms
- Poem from app (read!) Wordsworth
- Facts! Educational. Hard to imagine as today’s London, so let’s help!
- Key points of interest because have doubtless forgotten stuff
- 7.5k+ downloads (~80% iPhone)
- Funding, Collaborations, Multimedia, Geographical
- Postcards!
- Thanks