[humanities-dev] Other authors in Open Shakespeare

Tue Jun 5 12:47:34 UTC 2012

Hi Sam, 

Open Joyce is why I raised the question. James mentioned it to me in an
email and I've been trying to update the Milton code and make it more
generic so that the data can be loaded (and I've been thinking about
Dickens recently for something else but first things first!)

I'll hang fire on any further work on it until the call. 

Best, 

Iain

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 13:16 +0100, Sam Leon wrote:
> Hi Iain,
> 
> 
> Really interesting question. On the last Open Humanities call we were
> joined by Sarah Moriarty who's very interested in setting up Open
> Joyce.
> 
> 
> Like Rufus, though, I feel it might be sensible to set up more generic
> domain specific instances of the chosen platform like Open Philosophy
> or Open Literature.
> 
> 
> Definitely worth having this chat on the next Open Humanities call --
> which reminds me that we haven't fixed a date.
> 
> 
> I'm circulating this Doodle in a separate email, but feel free to fill
> it in through this link:
> 
> 
> http://www.doodle.com/npt85dxwr92afymx
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Sam
> 
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:23 PM, iain emsley
> <iain_emsley at austgate.co.uk> wrote:
>         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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