Academic publications

 

2024 ‘User-centred collecting for emerging formats’, journal article with Ian Cooke, Lynda Clark, Tegan Pyke and Florence Smith Nicholls, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Special Issue, 2024. DOI: 10.1080/13614568.2024.2389101

2023 ‘The Digital Archivist: the Role of Digital Nostalgia Aesthetics in a Digital Preservation Game’, journal article, The International Journal of Creative Media Research, Issue 10, July 2023. DOI: 10.33008/IJCMR.2023.06

2022 ‘The New Media Writing Prize Special Collection’, journal article with Tegan Pyke, James Pope, R. Lyle Skains and Stella Wisdom, Electronic British Library Journal. DOI: 10.23636/kw7j-0274

2022 ‘Quality Assurance for Born-Digital Interactive Narratives: The New Media Writing Prize Collection as a case study’, conference poster with Tegan Pyke, iPres 2022: International Conference on Digital Preservation, Glasgow, Scotland. Poster and extended abstract available here. Full conference proceedings available here.

2021 ‘Creating and Archiving Electronic Literature During the Pandemic’, conference poster, ELO 2021 Conference and Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic. Available here.

2020 ‘Archiving Interactive Narratives at the British Library’, book chapter with Lynda Clark and Stella Wisdom, ICIDS 2020: Interactive Storytelling, pp. 300-313, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_27 Pre-print manuscript available here.

2020 ‘ICIDS2020 Panel: Building the Discipline of Interactive Digital Narratives’, book chapter with Mark Bernstein, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Hartmut Koenitz, Sandy Louchart, Frank Nack, Chris Martens, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, David E. Millard, ICIDS 2020: Interactive Storytelling, pp. 3-11, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_1

Talks, workshops and conferences

 

2024 ELO (Un)linked 2024 (Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival), University of Central Florida/online – ‘Enhanced Curation and Ensuring a Post-Exhibition Legacy for the British Library’s Electronic Literature Collection’, talk given with Stella Wisdom as part of the Hypertexts & Fictions track. Video recording available here.

2024 IIPC Web Archiving Conference, Paris, France – ‘Digital Storytelling: Creating An Exhibition of Web-born and Mobile Narratives’, talk given with Ian Cooke. Conference schedule available here. Video recording available here.

2023 MIX 2023: Storytelling in Immersive Media, The British Library, London, UK – ‘Creation as Curation: Experimental Collection of Contextual Information for Mobile Apps at the British Library’, talk given with Florence Smith Nicholls as part of the panel 'Unlocking the Digital Archive: Preservation, Archiving and Enhanced Curation’. Abstracts available here.

2023 HCID Open Day 2023: Design Better, City, University of London, UK – ‘Playthroughs as Contextual Collecting for Emerging Formats’, talk given with Florence Smith Nicholls. Event details available here. Abstract and bio available here.

2023 IIPC Web Archiving Conference, Hilversum, The Netherlands – ‘Collecting and presenting complex digital publications’, talk given with Ian Cooke. Conference schedule available here. Video recording available here.

2022 On the Margins: Hypertext, Electronic Literature, Digital Humanities (online, 15-16 December) – ‘User-centred Collecting for Emerging Formats’, talk given with Ian Cooke. Event details available here. Full programme available here.

2022 IIPC Web Archiving Conference (online) – ‘The New Media Writing Prize Collection’, talk given with Tegan Pyke as part of the panel 'Electronic Literature and Digital Art: Approaches to Documentation and Collecting’. Abstracts available here. Video recording of the Q&A panel available here.

2021 National Libraries Now 2021: International Perspectives on Library Curation (online, 16-17 September) – ‘Building the New Media Writing Prize Special Collection in the UK Web Archive’, talk given with Tegan Pyke as part of the research panel 'Born-Digital Literature’. Event details available here. Video recording available here.

2021 Museum + Heritage Advisor, UK (online) – ‘Game for a change? Engaging audiences with new, creative experiences’, talk given as part of Museums + Heritage Summer Series 2021. Event details available here.

2021 VHS Tapes, Videogame Heritage Society | the National Videogame Museum, UK (online) – ‘Preserving Emerging Formats at the British Library’, talk given with Lynda Clark and Stella Wisdom. Video recording available here.

2021 ELO 2021 Conference and Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic, Electronic Literature Organization, Aarhus University & University of Bergen (online) – ‘Creating and Archiving Electronic Literature During the Pandemic’, poster presentation. Event details available here. Video recording available here.

2021 Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) Conference 2021, Dubrovnik, Croatia (online) – ‘Emerging Formats: understanding the impact of new publishing technologies on libraries’ collecting practices’. Event details available here. Slides available here.

2021 The British Library 2021 PhD Webinars, UK (online) – ‘Emerging Formats’, talk given as part of Module 7: Contemporary Society and Culture. Event details available here.

2020 The 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2020, Bournemouth University, UK (online) – ‘Archiving Interactive Narratives at the British Library’, talk given with Lynda Clark and Stella Wisdom as part of the research panel ‘IDN Research Discipline and Practice’. Event details available here. Pre-print manuscript of the proceedings available here.

2020 The 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2020, Bournemouth University, UK (online) – Panel Debate: ‘Building the Discipline of Interactive Digital Narratives’, moderated by David Millard and Anne-Gwenn Bosser, panelists: Hartmut Koenitz, Mark Bernstein, Chris Martens, and Giulia Carla Rossi. Event details available here. Proceedings available here.

2020 DRHA 2020 - Situating Digital Curation: Locating Creative Practice and Research between Digital Humanities and the Arts, University of Salford’s MediaCityUK (online) – ‘Collecting and Curating Emerging Formats’, talk given as part of the DocPerform 4 session. Event details available here. Book of abstracts available here.

2020 Leeds Libraries Tech Talk, UK (online) - ‘Digital Literature and Interactive Storytelling’, talk given as part of Leeds Libraries Tech Talks. Event details available here. Video recording available here.

2020 Confluence: the business and future of storytelling, Google Academy, London, UK - ‘Collecting innovation’. Event details available here. Abstract available here.

2020 Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK - ‘Collecting Approach to Complex Digital Publications’, talk given as part of the workshop by the DPC Web Archiving & Preservation Working Group on Complex Web Content and Social Media. Event details available here. Slides available here.

2019 DCDC19 Conference, Birmingham, UK - ‘The Emerging Formats Project’, talk given as part of the panel ‘Changing formats, evolving practice’. Conference papers available here. Audio recording available here.

Other writing

 

2023 ‘Chapter XXI. EDITIONS AT PLAY’, in P J M Marks and Stephen Parkin (eds.), ‘The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World's Greatest Invention’, 2023, British Library Publishing. Available here.

2021 ‘Building the New Media Writing Prize Special Collection’, written with Tegan Pyke, the British Library Digital Scholarship blog. Available here.

2021 ‘The New Media Writing Prize collection is now available in the UK Web Archive’, the British Library Digital Scholarship blog. Available here.

2020 ‘New PhD Placements Opportunities: Born-digital Legal Deposit and the New Media Writing Prize Collection’, the British Library Digital Scholarship blog. Available here.

2020 ‘The Botish Library: developing a poetry printing machine with Python’, the British Library Digital Scholarship blog. Available here.

2020 ‘The British Library Simulator’, the British Library Digital Scholarship blog, Available here.

2020 ‘Writing Tools for Interactive Fiction’, the British Library English and Drama blog, Available here.

2019 ‘Digital Literature and Emerging Media: 10 Years of the New Media Writing Prize’, the British Library English and Drama blog, Available here.

2019 ‘Collecting Emerging Formats’, the British Library Digital Scholarship blog, Available here.

Visiting lectures

 

2022, 2020 University of Glasgow, UK (online) - ‘Collecting Innovation: Archiving Emerging Formats at the British Library’, guest lecture for the Digital Creativity (INFOSTUD4016) module, MA Digital Media and Information Studies.

2020 City, University of London, UK - ‘Emerging Formats in Libraries’, guest lecture for the CityLIS ‘After Hours’ series in the Department of Library & Information Science. Event details available here.