[okfn-help] Milton and Shakespeare

Sat Jul 19 19:14:45 BST 2008

On 17/07/08 20:57, Iain Emsley wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I've had a thought about the Shakespeare and Milton projects and their 
> direction and wanted to bring this to the list, as Rufus and I have sort 
> of been talking about this recently.
> 
> Do we want to make the architecture of the project as generic as 
> possible and then offer "packs" of the data files (with the texts and 
> ancillary folders with the metadata file) for individual authors for 
> users to download and install? I think this would allow for differing 
> groups to use the project for their own purposes.

I think this is definitely the way to go :)

> As an addition, two things strike me.
> 
> Firstly, should we also have an upload form where collaborative groups 
> can link in their own essays and notes under the OKD?

Absolutely though we might want to just set up a wiki on knowledgeforge 
and link to that from the web interface.

> This leads me to thought two. In a couple of recent conferences, the 
> idea of small repositories linking to each other and offering interfaces 
> for search and linking (effectively combining both vertical and 
> horizontal search) has come about although has yet to be explicitly 
> discussed. I was going to propose that my next thing to do is to look at 
> creating an XML sitemap interface for search engines and also to look at 
> an RDF interface to enable future Semantic searching.

Sounds great. I don't know whether the 'Open Search' is of any interest 
here (http://www.opensearch.org/).

> I'd like to start looking at the second idea through August to see if it 
> is feasible and to experiment with it, if nobody has any objections.

Sounds excellent. Look forward to seeing what develops and helping out.

~rufus