The July workshop we discussed in our last post has now concluded, and we’re pleased to report that the event was quite successful! After introducing our own JVMG project, and the diggr project from Leipzig University, several of the invited community members gave presentations about their own sites and experiences. Over the two days of the conference, a lot of insightful discussions took place, and we think both the project and community members were able to both contribute and receive some information that will be helpful, either to their research projects or their community efforts.
Regarding the JVMG project, we received a lot of useful feedback from the invited community members, which will be important in allowing us to clarify how we communicate our project with other sites and interested parties in the future. In addition, all participants seemed interested in working with us on the project in various ways. In the near future, this will take the form of some data sharing agreements made between our project and various fan communities, allowing us to begin the project in earnest by collecting and analyzing a significant amount of aggregated, community-created data.
Finally, a big thanks to all of the community representatives from the Anime Characters Database, AnimeClick.it, Animexx, IGDB, Oregami, Stifftung Digitale Spielekultur, VNDB, and Wikidata’s Video Games Task Force for taking the time to come meet with us, and with the Leipzig members for hosting the workshop. This was an important initial milestone for us, and community involvement is vital to the foundation of our project, so we’re thankful for all of the interest and cooperation we received. We’ll be sure to update this blog as the project continues, so stay tuned!
All photos from Jean-Frédéric, Wikimedia.
