[annotator-dev] FinalsClub Annotations

Fri Dec 2 14:40:45 UTC 2011

Gents,

I just learned of another interesting annotation project that just closed a kickstarter fundraising round of $100k with a matching donation from a rich philanthropist.  It's located at www.Hypothes.is  

Have any of you heard of it?  It seems rather interesting, but it's unclear whether they've written even a line of code yet.  Thought I'd bring it to everyone's attention.

~Andrew

On Dec 1, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:

> 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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