[annotator-dev] FinalsClub Annotations

Fri Dec 2 15:00:04 UTC 2011

Thanks - I had not heard of it.

I see that Rufus is listed as advisor and collaborator, and that Micah
Altman (who worked with Jim Pitman on the earlier BibKN work) made a
donation.

As you say, it is not clear whether they have code, but the method
they describe is exactly the same as annotator / commentator.

We should see if they will use annotator code, and we can combine efforts on it.

Mark

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Andrew at FinalsClub.org
<andrew at finalsclub.org> wrote:
> 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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