Projects/Open Shakespeare/Blurb
From Open Knowledge Foundation
Feb 2010 - Facebook et al
Do you have an interest in innovative scholarship, an obsessive love of the Bard, or want to work with others to create a new way to engage with Shakespeare?
We're putting together a comprehensive, community-created collection of Shakespeare's works which (unlike most current editions) will be completely "open" -- free for anyone to use (and re-use).
Add your own annotations and critical notes, create summaries and introductions, track down sources and create your own critical edition. If you don't agree with an existing annotation, talk it out with the author on the site!
Every user is also a creator, so visit www.openshakespeare.org and take a look at the site. If you want to get more actively involved, we need people to write and proof-edit copy, manage the site, and to find and investigate different editions. The site's technology is also set up to be used by any techie who'd like to develop a similar project.
If you're interested, email open-shakespeare@okfn.org to join an alternative to traditional scholarship in action!
Autumn 2009
~ Open Shakespeare Squash ~
The Marriage of Text and Technology
- When: 4pm Saturday 10th October
- Where: Room L5B, South Court, Emmanuel College
- Who: Anyone interested in Shakespeare (esp. English students taking Part 1 Paper 5 or Tragedy in Part 2 ... that's all of you!)
Do you have an interest in innovative scholarship, an obsessive love of the Bard, or want to work with others to create new ways to engage with Shakespeare?
We're putting together a comprehensive, community-created collection of Shakespeare's works which (unlike most current editions) will be completely "open" -- free for anyone to use (and re-use).
Add your own annotations and critical notes, create summaries and introductions, track down sources and create your own critical edition.
Join up and see an alternative to traditional scholarship in action!
Rufus Pollock, Colette Sensier, Jude Jacob and Nick Stenning Open Shakespeare
Summer 2009
- Open Shakespeare (http://www.openshakespeare.org/): Shakespeare's
works free on the web, with no restrictions or conditions on their use. We need volunteers to proof edit and format texts, or even to create an original book cover design for downloadable versions of the plays.
Original
Open Shakespeare Squash, Saturday 4pm
Be part of a new resource starting up in Cambridge. We're aiming to create a comprehensive, community-based collection of Shakespeare's works which will be completely free and open for everyone.
Put up your own annotations for any of the works, and if you disagree with something already up there, talk it out with the author on the site. At the moment we need editors with a keen interest in Shakespeare to write summaries, introductions and glosses for public use. Join up and see an alternative to traditional scholarship in action! If you have an interest in innovative scholarship, an obssessive love of the Bard, or are simply planning to take Paper 5 in Part 1 or Tragedy in Part 2, this will be an essential community resource. Join now and help to form it as you use it.
If you're interested, it doesn't matter which year you're in or whether you have experience - come & have a chat in Emmanuel this Saturday. =
