[open-philosophy] Fwd: Help needed finding electronic editions of public domain philosophy texts

Sat Feb 4 10:53:11 GMT 2012

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From: Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:08 AM
Subject: Help needed finding electronic editions of public domain
philosophy texts

Dear all,

I'm currently putting together a list of digital plain text editions
of well-know philosophical texts that will be the initial material to
be featured on Open Philosophy [1], the first instance of TEXTUS [2] a
platform that will enable users to work with, share and
collaboratively annotate collections of public domain texts.

It would be a great help if I could have other people's input on this.
Currently we're working on a Google spreadsheet that can be found here
[3].

If you have a moment and you're interested in helping, we need people to:

(a) Add new (public domain) philosophy texts they think should be
featured there with links to digital editions (eg from Wikisource or
Project Gutenberg);
(b) Unpack the URLs for the Wikisource entries for the authors into
the texts themselves.

At the moment, we're focussing on texts in their original language and
trying to get plain text versions from Project Gutenberg or Wikisource
rather than page scans found on the Internet Archive.

If any of this is unclear to anyone who wants to get involved just
give me a shout and we can chat on Skype or clarify things via email.

Thanks,

Sam

[1] http://jonathangray.org/2011/11/04/ideas-for-openphilosophy-org/
[2] TEXTUS project webpage: http://textusproject.org TEXTUS project
Wiki: http://wiki.okfn.org/Projects/Textus
[3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ams8fpz2_77XdHNMeVB4SGsxMi1nQUFneHFKX2l4T2c&pli=1#gid=0

--
Sam Leon
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Skype: samedleon

-- 
Jonathan Gray
http://jonathangray.org