[annotator-dev] FinalsClub Annotations

Thu Dec 1 19:21:11 UTC 2011

That's excellent.  I'm starting to host regular 'futurecasting' parties in
Cambridge, we can make annotation the topic of one soon.  Free Sunday
late-aft?  :-)

SJ

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Andrew at FinalsClub.org <
andrew at finalsclub.org> wrote:

> Thanks for chiming in, SJ.  We did have a call and are working to get the
> FinalsClub data into a usable form for the OKF's Open Shakespeare project.
>
> I sent an SQL dump of about 270 books and 9000+ annotations to Rufus and
> Co the other day and am awaiting response.  I'd love to sit down and
> brainstorm some Annotation ideas at any point.  It's been a while since
> we've crossed paths.
>
> Take care,
> Andrew
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>
> Was there followup to this?
>
> I am working on a project to share - discuss - annotate citations (there
> the annotations are comments on the cite as a source, or on the
> citation-link itself, rather than on the underlying text of the cite), and
> would be glad to coordinate.
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite
>
> Sam.
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> On 3 November 2011 16:07, Andrew at FinalsClub.org <andrew at finalsclub.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Rufus,
>> > Thanks for the reply.  I was beginning to think you weren't interested.
>>
>> Definitely interested -- just been very busy the last couple of weeks
>> (also on this issue it is really my colleague James Harriman-Smith you
>> should talk to but I am not sure he checks this mailing list -- as
>> suggested earlier best place for this discussion might be
>> open-humanities ...).
>>
>> >  I've actually been talking with another company (Highlighter.com)
>> about
>> > helping out in the meantime.  Since I am a believer in free and open
>> > knowledge, I hope there is a compelling reason for us to work together
>> > instead.
>> > A call on Sunday, November 20th would work.  What time were you
>> thinking?
>>
>> Our usual Open Literature meetups are at around 3 or 4pm GMT. Would
>> that work for you?
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> > Looking forward,
>> > Andrew Magliozzi
>> > Founder, FinalsClub.org
>> > On Nov 2, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>> >
>> > On 30 October 2011 18:58, Andrew Magliozzi <andrew at finalsclub.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks for the words of support, Philipp.
>> >
>> > To follow up my other email ...
>> >
>> > I'd love to help the OKF as much as possible. Since Shakespeare is only
>> part
>> >
>> > of the content we have I'd love to get your platform running on
>> >
>> > FinalsClub.org so our community can resume annotating even more great
>> public
>> >
>> > domain texts.
>> >
>> > That would be great. One of our plans (as just mentioned) is to expand
>> > Open Shakespeare (and Open Milton) to be Open Literature i.e. to be a
>> > place for all open texts. We'd love to collaborate here since it
>> > sounds like we're both interested inthis. As this is less relevant to
>> > Annotator list so may want to move to open humanities mailing list:
>> > <http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-humanities>
>> >
>> > I would also like to discuss some ideas I have about annotation in
>> general,
>> >
>> > particularly with regard to the kindle and other e-readers. Rufus,
>> would you
>> >
>> > be free for a Skype chat this Thursday perhaps?
>> >
>> > Tomorrow (thursday) would be possible though it would be really good
>> > to be able to bring in my colleague James. What about tying this in
>> > with the next biweekly Open Literature / Open Humanities meetup
>> > (sunday after next)?
>> >
>> > Rufus
>> >
>> > Looking forward,
>> >
>> > Andrew
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Oct 30, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 17 October 2011 08:52, Andrew at FinalsClub.org <andrew at finalsclub.org>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear Annotation Aficionados,
>> >
>> > I am involved with FinalsClub.org, a non-profit open education project
>> for
>> >
>> > college students to share their knowledge freely with the world.  In
>> >
>> > addition to note-sharing, the project also had an annotation component
>> from
>> >
>> > 2007 to 2009.  During that time, we hired about a dozen Harvard PhDs to
>> >
>> > annotate public domain works of literature, including ten Shakespeare
>> plays.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, our old site is down and those annotations are not
>> publicly
>> >
>> > visible.  I have, however, attached the xml file for Romeo and Juliet
>> with
>> >
>> > about 500 annotations.  If anyone is interested in helping us resurrect
>> >
>> > about 90 public domain texts with some 9000+ high quality annotations,
>> we
>> >
>> > would very much like the help.
>> >
>> > Wow. How hard would it be to import them? For example to this:
>> >
>> > http://openshakespeare.org/work/romeo_and_juliet
>> >
>> > @Rufus - could be a good way to bootstrap open shakespeare, but also a
>> >
>> > broader annotation community around annotator. Is there still a public
>> site
>> >
>> > - I could only find http://okfn.org/projects/annotator/
>> >
>> > There may be an opportunity to turn Annotator into a service like
>> Universal
>> >
>> > Subtitles
>> >
>> > P
>> >
>> >
>> > Given that all of our content is creative commons attribution only,
>> we're
>> >
>> > glad to share it with proper attribution to finalsclub.  I'd also love
>> to
>> >
>> > get the annotate software running on our servers so our community of
>> >
>> > scholars can start adding more value to these classic texts.  There is,
>> >
>> > however, no urgency to the matter.
>> >
>> > Please do let me know if you're interested in helping.  Thanks in
>> advance!
>> >
>> > Looking forward,
>> >
>> > Andrew Magliozzi
>> >
>> > Founder, FinalsClub.org
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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