The document lists several digital scholarship projects including Timescape, an augmented reality project about history in cities; Git-Lit, a tool for analyzing literature through GitHub; and Vittoria's World of Stories, an interactive story app. It then announces Git-Lit as the runner up and Vittoria's World of Stories as the winner in a competition between the projects.
Introduce your self and what you do and say your colleague Alex Whitfield (Head of Learning Programmes and Cultural events) was part of the judging panel. Say something about it being early days for this award and we didn’t get many entries (we actually had 3 entries). 1 minute or so.
Nandini Das is a Professor of English Literature and PI at the University of Liverpool, and an Emeritus Professor of English Literature and PI at Jadavpur University (India). They produced an Augmented Reality App that overlays British Library archival photographs and documentary information about historic buildings in the city of Kolkata, India. Since the launch of Timescape: Kolkata, further resources has been added to the original iteration, and a second iteration has been produced for the city of Bangalore. A third iteration is in development for Ghana.
Git-Lit by Jonathan Reeeve is an open-source initiative to make public domain British Library electronic texts readable, discoverable, annotatable, and editable. The project automates the creation of over 50,000 digital scholarly editions from British Library texts, using the distributed version control technology Git and the project management platform GitHub.
Vittoria’s World of Stories is led by parents at Vittoria Primary School through the PTA, with the support of school staff. The aim of the project is to collect and share traditional tales from around the world and creative work by current pupils through workshops, the production of a book, school assemblies, readings and performances, and via the creation of audio, text and images for the school website during the current academic year. The illustrations for the project are drawn from the British Library’s Flickr collection which are displayed alongside pupils’ artwork.
Sara Wingate Gray and Kate Lomax worked on this project which pivoted around the development of an open source platform, designed to showcase how learning could be enhanced through engaging with digital archive materials. An additional research question was to address how to better enable resource discovery and share-ability of online digital cultural heritage content. The platform provided 3 unique ways for users to access digital archive objects: a visual slideshow; a visual timeline; and a visual geo-tagged world map. Users interacted with the platform through the creation of “narratives” - each user selecting image objects from the primary collection (British Library, East India Office paintings), then building and curating, tagging, annotating, and sharing their own sub-collections stories of digital content, including their personal narratives and text about the objects.
Vahur Puik from Estonian Photographic Heritage Society developed Sift.pics is a crowdsourcing application for that kind of binary categorisation about images. We take in pictures from public collections that users start to browse and ask them to make couple of sorting decisions, they can also favorite (bookmark) images, see the title of the image and open the image in an official web repository. The binary icon based categorisation is meant for maximum simplicity of the task (especially on a mobile device), our experience shows that even children of the age of 4 can take interest in the tagging and make accurate decisions about the pictures.
Git-Lit by Jonathan Reeeve
Vittoria’s World of Stories is led by parents at Vittoria Primary School through the PTA. Louise Simmons - Assistant Headteacher and Michelle Ferrar - Vittoria PTA have come to collect the Awards.
