[annotator-dev] FinalsClub Annotations

Thu Nov 3 20:14:18 UTC 2011

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:
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>
>
> 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
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> 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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