Quoting Jonathan Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Iain! > > Iain Emsley wrote: >> Apologies for the slightly random email whilst I was trying to >> unsubscribe my Yahoo account. > > No problem ;-) I'm really embarrassed because I work on a help desk... > > We'd certainly support such a project. If you are looking for a home in > the first instance, you're welcome to use our free KnowledgeForge > service, where Open Shakespeare currently resides: > > http://knowledgeforge.net/ > http://knowledgeforge.net/project/shakespeare/ > > I've just created a project for a repository of his texts here, with a > subversion repository here: > > http://knowledgeforge.net/project/milton/ > http://knowledgeforge.net/project/milton/services/svn/ > > Would it be worth grabbing openmilton.net or similar? That would be fantastic. It'd then have a home to go to once there is enough built. How about openmilton.org? > >> >> I'm curious as to how you can open up literature (something a >> colleague and I were discussing in the corridor) and language and >> use the Open Data and the Internet to do this. >> >> Would this be of interest at all? > > Categorically yes! > > Its worth noting that the Project Gutenberg license is not fully 'open' > (as in opendefinition.org), but that if you strip out Project > Gutenberg's header/footer and any other references - the resulting text > is open [1]. I was planning on splitting the licenses and definitions off as they throw text parsing. > > I suppose the first step would be to gather together a complete and > fully open set of Milton's works to start tinkering around with: > > http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/m#a17 > > I've been thinking a lot about tools you could create for public domain > texts over the last little while. (Particularly in relation to > philosophical texts.) > > It would be fun to draft a wish-list of features - for doing the kinds > of thing you describe, and for scholarly purposes. For example, for > linking together proper names across different texts, for marking up > versions of the texts with page numbers in different editions, and so > on. I'm fully planning on coming to OkCon on March 15th - perhaps discuss there? > Regards,
Iain > > [1] See http://opendefinition.org/licenses > > <quote>Used on Gutenberg's ebooks of public domain texts. It is > non-open because it restricts commercial use. Note that the license > only applies if you continue to use the Gutenberg name - if you remove > the licensing information and any reference to Project Gutenberg then > the resulting text is open.</quote> -- Iain Emsley Blog: www.yatterings.com Mobile: 07942 259725 _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
