[annotator-dev] FinalsClub Annotations
Andrew@FinalsClub.org
andrew at finalsclub.org
Fri Dec 2 15:39:08 UTC 2011
Good eye, Mark. I hadn't seen Rufus' name. Rufus, if you know any more, I'd be curious to hear the details whenever you get a moment.
Thanks,
Andrew
On Dec 2, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Mark MacGillivray wrote:
> 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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