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Project Overview

Who
The Strong National Museum of Play
What
Application development,
Consultation,
Custom Development,
Design Consulting,
Identity Design,
Information architecture,
Site Design
Where
The Sid Sackson Portal

The Sid Sackson collection, held in the Brian Sutton-Smith Library & Archives of Play at The Strong, is a compilation of diaries, correspondence, notes, game descriptions, and publications created or used by Sid Sackson during his lengthy career in the toy and game industry. Sackson meticulously documented his daily activities related to game design, development, and collecting in his diaries; he recorded details about the games he played and designed, people with whom he spoke or corresponded in the game industry, and the articles and books he read. Sackson also indexed many of the diaries, creating a high level of access rarely found in personal papers. These handwritten diaries represent a comprehensive picture of the American board game industry in the latter half of the 20th century. The Sid Sackson Portal allows game enthusiasts and researchers alike to dive into 35 years of diaries created by legendary game designer Sid Sackson. Agile designed and implemented this custom Omeka S site in collaboration librarians and archivists at The Strong.

Project Overview

Who
Columbia University,
Duke University,
University of Virginia
What
Data visualization,
Site Design
Where
ITSB Site

"The Agile team did an amazing job listening to, refining, and implementing our ideas."
In the Same Boats is a work of multimodal scholarship designed to encourage the collaborative production of humanistic knowledge within scholarly communities. The platform comprises two interactive visualizations that trace the movements of significant cultural actors from the Caribbean and wider Americas, Africa, and Europe within the 20th century Afro-Atlantic world. It presents opportunities for unearthing the extent to which Caribbean, Latin American, African, European, and Afro-American intellectuals have been in both punctual and sustained conversation with one another: attending the same conferences, publishing in the same journals and presses, active in the same political groups, perhaps even elbow-to-elbow in the same Parisian cafés and on the same transatlantic crossings – literally and metaphorically in the same boats – as they circulate throughout the Americas, Africa, Europe, and beyond. Agile's contributions to the project include Jekyll site design, Python scripting and data transformation, and D3.js map and timeline visualizations.