[humanities-dev] Other authors in Open Shakespeare

Tue Jun 5 11:23:23 UTC 2012

Hi Rufus, 

I'm coming to the conclusion that we need one platform where we load in
author packages (which is something that we discussed a couple of years
ago but its fallen through the cracks). 

Not sure about what we use as we've gone for all the above options
previously. 

A part of me thinks can we use Textus but another is on the lines of
lets complete turning open shakespeare into a platform with a generic
package loader (which is what I'm struggling with slightly at the moment
in getting the openmilton package on github to install). This option
already has the stats packages and view options installed but I'm sure
that these could be ported across to a Textus branch (which would, I
think, mean that we could move away from Xapian as the search engine and
use elastic search's facet search which removes a dependency and
simplifies the code a little). 

I think in that paragraph, I find myself moving towards Textus, at least
as the core, for open literature.

Perhaps this is a conversation for the next humanities call (is this
still on?). 
Best, 

Iain

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 09:20 +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Hi Iain,
> 
> I wonder if this is the point where we should try and push for
> openliterature.net and just have everything in one site. That's been
> our plan and I think we could make it work. The key question is:
> 
> Do we use the existing code-base or do we switch to textus or do
> something new (even just on wordpress!)
> 
> Rufus
> 
> On 4 June 2012 21:09, iain emsley <iain_emsley at austgate.co.uk> wrote:
> > Evening,
> >
> > I've had a brief conversation with James about somebody possibly wanting
> > to use Open Shakespeare with another author. I know that I had this
> > working with Open Milton (which appears to have disappeared) but can't
> > remember how it worked.
> >
> > I've downloaded the Open Shakespeare code onto its own virtual envelope
> > and built the openmilton package but the Shakespeare.cli is not picking
> > up the data package (which is also stored in
> > shakespeare/material_cache/miltondata).
> >
> > Looking at the openmilton package on github, it would appear that I need
> > to set up the data package as a separate module (which feels different
> > since last time I saw it). Is this still the case?
> >
> > Many thanks for any help in advance,
> >
> > Iain
> >
> >
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