Boo Games keeps you updated with ten Scottish projects that got funding from the Digital R&D

Ten Scottish projects have been awarded with funding from the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts in Scotland in 2012-14, a programme funded by Nesta, Creative Scotland and the AHRC.

All of the above mentioned projects were testing new digital initiatives that would diversify and expand their audience, strengthen the communication with their audience and sustain new income streams by analysing business models.

The interesting part comes in when all the ten Scottish projects agreed to shed light on what they have learned, helping the sector to develop by using their experience.

The National Piping Centre has set up an e-Learning hub on their existing website with Yellow Brick House, its technology partner, as part of a gradual shift towards digital online tuition and digital content.

Live webinars are offered for students all around the world by piping tutors at the centre in Glasgow, and the organisation has created a media archive, through which they stored historical and education documents, but also developed an audio archive of old recordings.

Culture Republic created a Facebook app that is selling tickets for Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh. Their partners, Whitespace and Ingresso, have documented the results from the project and are willing to share it with other art organisation from Scotland.

Dundee Contemporary Arts explored the principles of game design with Denki and Lucky Frame, their technology partners, resulting in a donations box and a loyalty card scanning system.

An Iodhlann proved the arts are not restricted to urban facilities or technology skills, so they developed an app with Tiree inhabitants, which you can download with HTML 5 and use it even offline as you move around the landscape of the Inner Hebrides.

Culture Juice, a brand and website that was designed to appeal to a younger audience belongs to four different box offices that realized they haven’t been communicating to each other so far. The Royal Lyceum, Usher Hall, Filmhouse and the Traverse worked with Tictoc, their technology partner at this website that encourages visitors to buy more tickets and use all four venues, providing them with constant offers.

Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) released a selection of arthouse films on an online platform, which allows you to download them in your office or home with Distrify, GFT and Filmhouse Edinburgh.

Art Hunter is a multi platform app developed by Arthunter with their technology partner, Kotikan. The app can be downloaded by visitors to the NGS sites in Edinburgh, changing the NGS policy by allowing visitors to use mobile devices in galleries.

The National Theatre of Scotland is working without walls, with performances being held in pubs, forests or pubs, or traditional theatres. The access of people with visual impairments being impossible, NTS delivered captioning and audio description on mobile devices in order to make their performances accessible for everyone.

Publishing Scotland developed an app called Bookspotting that guides your reading relating to your mood, current date and place.

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