{"id":1229,"date":"2010-06-13T14:07:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T13:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2010-06-13T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T13:07:50","slug":"locative-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/13\/locative-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Locative texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post at HLit got me thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/htlit.com\/archives\/June2010\/Locative.html\">locative hypertexts<\/a>, which are meant to be read in a particular place.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Liza Daly <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.threepress.org\/2010\/06\/08\/geo-aware-ebook-demo\/\">shared an epub demo<\/a> which pulls in the reader&#8217;s location, and makes decisions about the character&#8217;s actions based on movement. Think of it as a choose-your-own-adventure novel crossed with a geo-aware travel guide. It&#8217;s a brief proof-of-concept, and the most exciting part is that the code is free for the taking under the very permissive (GPL + commercial-compatible) MIT License. Thanks, Liza and Threepress for lowering barriers to experimentation with ebooks!<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Locative hypertexts&#8217; also bring to mind GPS-based guidebooks as envisioned in the 2007 Editus video &#8216;Possible ou probable&#8230;?&#8217; ((<a href=\"http:\/\/www.editis.com\/pages_html\/video_possible02.htm\">Editus&#8217; copy of the video<\/a>)):<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/huV6kLrwiT8&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/huV6kLrwiT8&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim McCormick <a href=\"http:\/\/postbook.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/19\/the-future-of-the-book-and-the-sorrows-of-web-video\/\">summarizes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 9-minute video, we get mouth-watering, partly tongue-in-cheek scenes of continental Europe\u2019s quality-of-life \u2014 fantastic trains &amp; pedestrian streetscapes,independent bookstores, delicious food, world-class museums, weekend getaway to Bruges, etc.\u2013 as the movie follows a couple through a riotous few days of E-book high living.<\/p>\n<p>On their fabulously svelte, Kindle 2-like devices, they<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>read and purchase novels<\/li>\n<li>enjoy reading on the beach<\/li>\n<li>get multimedia museum guides<\/li>\n<li>navigate foreign cities with ease<\/li>\n<li>stay in multimedia contact with friends and family<\/li>\n<li>collaborate with colleagues on shared virtual desktops while at sidewalk cafes<\/li>\n<li>see many hi-resolution Breughel paintings online and off that I\u2019m dying to see myself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Multimedia guidebooks ((e.g. the Lonely Planet city guide series for iPhone)) are approaching this vision. Combine them with (also-existing) turn-by-turn directions, and connectivity and privacy will be the largest remaining obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>So then what about location-based storytelling? I got to thinking about the iPhone apps I&#8217;ve already encountered, which are intended for use in particular places:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill &#8211; a murder mystery\/travel series based in Boston (available as an iPhone app and podcast).<\/li>\n<li> Museum of the Phantom City: Other Futures &#8211; a multimedia map\/alternate history of NYC architecture, described as a way to &#8220;see the city that could have been&#8221;. It maps never-built structures envisioned by Buckminster Fuller, Gaudi, and others &#8211; ideally while you&#8217;re &#8220;standing on the projects&#8217; intended sites&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Museum of London: Streetmuseum, true history of London in photos, meant for use on the streets<\/li>\n<li>Historic Earth, has historical maps which could be interesting settings for historical locative storytelling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post at HLit got me thinking about locative hypertexts, which are meant to be read in a particular place. Monday, Liza Daly shared an epub demo which pulls in the reader&#8217;s location, and makes decisions about the character&#8217;s actions based on movement. 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