Projects/Textus



TEXTUS is a platform -- part toolbox, part web application -- for working with and presenting textual material from Shakespeare to Schopenhauer, and letters to literature.

TEXTUS is the evolution of more than 6 years of previous work including the OpenShakspeare platform (which powered http://openshakespeare.org from 2005 until 2011) and the OpenCorrespondence system (which powered http://opencorrespondence.org from 2009-2011).

= Key Resources =


 * Website: http://textusproject.org
 * Blog: http://textusproject.org/blog
 * Repo: https://github.com/okfn/textus
 * Technical documentation: https://github.com/okfn/textus/tree/master/docs

= Mailing Lists =


 * The humanities-dev mailing list is the used for technical discussions related to TEXTUS
 * The open-humanities mailing list is the list to be used for more general discussions of digital humanities tools, projects and activities at the OKFN

= Presentations =


 * Introduction to TEXTUS


 * TEXTUS Technical Overview

= Technical Roadmap =

TEXTUS Iterations Plan

= Content Providers =

The main content providers to TEXTUS are the major public domain portals:


 * Internet Archive
 * Wikisource
 * Project Gutenberg

= Open Philosophy =

Open Philosophy (http://openphilosophy.org) is set to be the first instance of TEXTUS.

= User stories =
 * Source material for Open Philosophy
 * First mock-ups of OpenPhilosophy.org


 * I want to be able to read a text
 * I want to be able to search for a particular text and texts by a given author as well as for a term across the full-text and annotations of a collection of texts
 * I want to be able to export a text
 * I want to be able to cite an electronic version of a text in TEXTUS, or a section of it, using URLs
 * I want to be able to create bibliographies of texts
 * I want to be able to see the original facsimiles of a text
 * I want to be able to export by bibliographies to Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote
 * I want to be able to share a given annotation or citation via Twitter
 * I want to be able to filter annotations based on who made them
 * I want to be able to be able to personalise my annotations
 * I want to be able to rate an annotation
 * I want to be able to rate someone else's annotation
 * I want to be able to tag certain sections of a text as relating to a particular theme
 * I want to be to be able to import a text into TEXTUS

User Stories not to be addressed during JISC project

 * I want to be able to create connections between texts of the form X references Y (although might be abe to be delivered).
 * I want to be able to find links to and information on secondary material about a primary text.

= See also =


 * TEXTUS: an open source platform for working with collections of texts and metadata
 * OCR to digitalize books (have to finish and migrate to ideas incubator)

= Other useful links =


 * Nietzsche Source
 * Annotator
 * Project Agora
 * Project Gutenberg