[humanities-dev] FinalsClub annotations

Fri Jun 29 13:04:29 UTC 2012

Dear Andrew, digital humanists,

Just to let you know that I've finally sorted the last few issues with
the FinalsClub annotations. As usual, the final 10% turned out to be
substantially more than 10% of the effort, but I think we're nearly there.

I've managed to get the Annotations online in two places:

1) OpenShakespeare/AnnotateIt. All the annotations are in the data
store, but OpenShakespeare currently only loads the most recent 200
annotations for each play. This needs fixing.

  http://openshakespeare.org/work/romeo_and_juliet

2) A demo Textus server. At the moment I've only loaded Hamlet, but
loading the others should be pretty trivial now:

  http://textus-server.herokuapp.com/#texts

CAVEATS:

 - there are still display issues with OpenShakespeare (including the
loading-only-200 issue) -- e.g. I've tried to convert the annotation
text to Markdown, but haven't yet enabled the Markdown plugin.

 - there are many, many display issues with TEXTUS, although I already
prefer the reading interface over OpenShakespeare's

 - we will also be providing author info in TEXTUS eventually, so ignore
the "import at openshakespeare.org" stuff

-N

P.S. For those of you who subscribe to the "raw and now" philosophy:

  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/171123/finalsclub_annotations_20120529.json

P.P.S. If you're interested, the somewhat impenetrable code do to the
annotation conversion is available at:

  https://github.com/nickstenning/shakespeare-annotations

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