[annotator-dev] FinalsClub Annotations

[Andrew@FinalsClub.org]

Rufus,

Thanks for the reply.  I was beginning to think you weren't interested.  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?

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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