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Open Shakespeare Project

• /Meetings
  • If you want to participate email open-shakespeare at okfn dot org
• General links from: http://www.openshakespeare.org/team/
• /Publicity (posters) + /Blurb (about blurbs)
• /Book_Design -- Open Shakespeare Edition!
• Acquiring existing material:
  • Encyclopaedia Britannia 1911 edition (most recent in public domain): /Britannica

General Ideas

• Introduction to Shakespeare himself
• Introductions/Summaries for texts
• Glosses for unusual words
• Critical notes
• Book Design (front page etc) for an "Open Shakespeare Edition" - here for pricing http://www.blurb.com/shipping_calculator

Other items:

• Contacting exist communities
• Tagging themes in the plays
  • Theme finder application
• Shakespeare quote API
• Visualization: shakespeare + wordle
• Long term: tracing themes/words over time
• Nick's musings about annotation system architecture.
• Paula's thoughts on scene based description and searching for a project idea Open Performance

Deprecated

• For annotation: Hamlet ACT I on co-ment: http://www.co-ment.net/text/1301/
• Google Calendar for scheduling
  • Next meeting: ...