[okfn-help] openphilosophy.org

Fri Sep 18 13:29:00 BST 2009

2009/9/4 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> Hi Rufus,
>
> I'm going to (finally) start a project related to my academic research
> - aggregating (predominantly English and German) public domain
> philosophy texts, creating a timeline of the history of philosophy,
> laying out texts/translations side by side, experimenting with tools
> to analyse the texts and so on. Eventually I'd like to be able to spit
> out nice PDFs of the text files, to have a go at linking between
> texts, creating URLs to link to specific parts of texts and so on.

Great stuff. This would also really fit with our work on annotation etc.

> In the first instance (like many other OKF projects) this will start
> out as a blog (for the website), and a repository (for the texts)
>
> I was wondering whether:
>
>  (i) there is any easy way to use the Gutenberg scraping tool from
> Open Shakespeare to get texts;

Yes.

>  (ii) you might be able to point openphilosophy.org to:
> http://knowledgeforge.net/openphilosophy/blog;
>  (iii) you would recommend using Mercurial instead of Subversion for
> the repository?

Yes. Though in all cases you probably want to store sources not
anything rendered ...

Rufus