Visualisation of Morgan scrapbooks

An explorable digital book for archives data visualisation

Group project

Nov 2019 - Dec 2019

Morgan has produced 12 scrapbooks during his entire life and these scrapbooks are valuable biographical materials for people to learn more about Morgan and the background of time he lived. However, due to the copyright problem, these books cannot be published.

This 3D online scrapbook visualises 4 scrapbooks (metadata provided by Edwin Morgan Trustees and the University of Glasgow Library), which open to the public and researchers.

Introduction

First national poet in Scotland

Translator - translated poems in different languages into English

Endlessly inventive

Internationalist

Deeply committed to his home city of Glasgow

Inquiring

Energetic

Edwin Morgan

Produced

12 scrapbooks

Could not be published due to the copyright problem

A large number of orphan work - time-consuming to earn permission

Valuable biographical materials for people to learn more about Morgan and the time he lived

We have

metadata of 4 scrapbooks

Collected and owned by Edwin Morgan Trustees and the University of Glasgow Library

4 books produced from the 1930s to 1960s

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Our mission: utilize the metadata by visualising the scrapbooks and allow the public to know what are in the scrapbooks without viewing the original books.

Audience

General Pubilc

The general public who are interested in the poet Edwin Morgan.

Scholars & Researchers

Scholars and researchers who are researching Morgan.

Librarians & Archivists

Librarians and archivists who are looking at our digital object as an example.

Owing to various kinds of target audiences the project has, the final artifact was designed to be a digital website that could be widely propagated and seen by the public.

Data analysis

Python data analysis

Design process

Work

Every page has some tasks and questions, which guild the audience to explore the story of Morgan and the time he lived, and help them navigate in the interactive book.