Open online tools for creating interactive narratives

With the increased availability of new tools, platforms, technologies and formats to create and distribute digital publications, the British Library has been researching and collecting examples of digital storytelling as part of its Emerging Formats work. This presentation will introduce some of the freely available and open-source online interactive writing tools, which have been used by creatives whose works have been showcased in the Library’s recent Digital Storytelling exhibition, and added to the Interactive Narratives collection in the UK Web Archive. It will also provide a brief overview of collecting activity for interactive digital publications by UK Legal Deposit Libraries and the Library’s engagement activities with experimental digital writers.