Open Literature

= Open Literature =

Overview
This is a page on the wiki for activities relating to open literature - including Open Shakespeare and Open Milton.

See:


 * http://www.openshakespeare.org/
 * http://knowledgeforge.net/project/shakespeare/

Open Shakespeare
subject: Open Shakespeare Project

Hi,

I hope people won't mind me posting to the list about the Open Shakespeare project which has recently seen its sixth update:



In a nut-shell Open Shakespeare project aims to provide a complete *open* [1] set of Shakespeare's works, together with ancillary information and tools, in a form designed for reuse. More details about the project can be found below.

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 * 1) About

The Open Shakespeare project has two main objectives:

1. Provide the complete works of shakespeare, along with textual apparatus (introduction, notes) and tools (concordance, search etc) all in an open form. 2. Deliver this material as a knowledge package that allows for easy deployment, redistribution and reuse.

Specifically we provide a full open set of shakespeare’s works along with ancillary material, a variety of tools and a python API. In addition to the works themselves (often in multiple versions) there is an introduction, a chronology, a concordance and search facilities.

All material is open source/open knowledge so that anyone can use, redistribute and reuse these materials freely.


 * 1) Why Yet Another Shakespeare Project

If you type 'Shakespeare' into Google you find thousands of websites - so why do we need another? See the FAQ:



Or the section on the front page of




 * 1) Latest Update of Open Shakespeare

* Major refactoring of internal code to be cleaner and simpler * A new cleaner and reorganized web interface * Search support via Xapian:  * Statistical analysis and graphing * By word:  * By text:  * Start on Open Milton

Already Contacted
List any organisations or lists contacted here, to avoid duplication!

To contact
Two main groups: potential users (students, researchers, actors...) and potential developers (F/OSS people, Python users, educational software developers...).

(todo: filter)


 * SHAKSPER
 * One laptop per child
 * JISCMAIL Shakespeare audiovisual lists
 * RSC - http://www.rsc.org.uk/content/3935.aspx
 * Jeremy Hylton - see http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ and http://www.python.org/~jeremy/
 * relevant wikipedia lists
 * Globe - http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/
 * http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/425/436/
 * http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
 * http://www.shakespeare-online.com/siteinfo/about.html
 * Shakespeare Resource Center
 * http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~matty/Shakespeare/
 * http://www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/
 * http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
 * http://shakespearean.org.uk/
 * http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/
 * http://www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk/intsummer/shakespeare/
 * British Shakespeare Association - http://www.britishshakespeare.ws
 * Shakespeare Schools Festival - http://www.ssf.uk.com/
 * http://www.shakespeareanauthorshiptrust.org.uk/
 * http://www.rhul.ac.uk/English/Studying/Postgraduate-Study/MA/Shakespeare1.html

To post

 * on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare