[humanities-dev] FinalsClub annotations

Fri Jun 29 13:19:48 UTC 2012

Amazing, Nick!

It feels good to see the annotation count on OpenShakespeare at 3,817.  I wonder if you'd care to use our introductory essays as well.  In some cases, they are extremely comprehensive, notably Macbeth and Hamlet.  

As an aside, I didn't see any Macbeth annotations.  There may be some gotchas with that text, notably that our annotator actually annotated his own intro essay, making it into part of the play, which would throw off all of the offsets in your conversion.

Holler if I can help and thanks again for grinding on this.  All the annotations I've seen look great!

Cheers,
Andrew

On Jun 29, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Nick Stenning wrote:

> 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
> 
> 