In this session, Simon Dixon will reflect on the experience of two recent Cultural Economy Knowledge Exchange projects involving the University of Leicester\u2019s Special Collections department. The first, \u2018Changing Industries in Leicester\u2019s Cultural Quarter\u2019, combined archival research on the rise, fall and reinvention of industry in the St George\u2019s area of Leicester with location-aware technology to create a mobile app telling a story of industrial change during the twentieth century. The project, funded as part of the wider AHRC Archives, Assets and Audiences project,\u00a0 was a collaboration between the University Library, Leicester\u2019s Centre for Urban History, a local IT company (Cuttlefish) and an arts organisation (Phoenix). The second project, \u2018Crowdsourcing the History of The Leicester Tigers\u2019, piloted a model for crowdsourcing the history of a sporting venue through online and offline methods of community engagement. The objective was to explore how a collaborative project between an archive (University of Leicester Special Collections), arts organisation (Soft Touch Arts) and technology provider (Historypin) could increase audience engagement with all three organisations, thereby creating a replicable model for other sporting venues. After describing the two projects and presenting their digital outputs, Dixon will reflect on lessons learnt and outline the benefits to Digital Humanities research of such cross-sector collaborations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose attending the seminar may like to download the St Georges App via http:\/\/leicesterstgeorges.co.uk\/<\/a> and explore the digital assets created during the Welford Road project at https:\/\/www.historypin.org\/channels\/view\/53002<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday November 10th Arts Two SCR – 5:30pm In this session, Simon Dixon will reflect on the experience of two recent Cultural Economy Knowledge Exchange projects involving the University of Leicester\u2019s Special Collections department. The first, \u2018Changing Industries in Leicester\u2019s Cultural Quarter\u2019, combined archival research on the rise, fall and reinvention of industry in the […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}