[open-humanities] Annotation Data Dump

Thu Dec 1 13:52:32 UTC 2011

Thanks James.  I'm available if you have any questions as well.  Thanks again for your help.  I'm excited to bring these annotations back to life.

Warm Regards,
Andrew Magliozzi
Founder, FinalsClub.org

On Dec 1, 2011, at 8:43 AM, James Harriman-Smith wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Andrew Magliozzi has made the full XML database of Harvard annotations available for download here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15975779/FinalsClub%20Assets/10.6.166.43.sql.zip
> 
> @ Nick, @ Mark: any thoughts?
> 
> Readme and Andrew's original message below.
> 
> Have a good weekend,
> 
> James
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Andrew Magliozzi <andrew.magliozzi at gmail.com>
> Date: 28 November 2011 19:20
> Subject: Annotation Data
> To: rufus.pollock at okfn.org
> Cc: James Harriman-Smith <james.harriman-smith at cantab.net>
> 
> 
> Dear Rufus and James,
> 
> Thanks for your patience as we took some time off for Thanksgiving weekend hear in the US.  I hope all is well in the UK and I still look forward to meeting you if/when you arrive in Boston.  Without ado, here is a large sql database of all of our books and annotations (in HTML format):
> 
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15975779/FinalsClub%20Assets/10.6.166.43.sql.zip
> 
> As I mentioned, there are a few gotchas and little details to consider when trying to parse our data.  Here's a brief run-down of the specific things to look for:
> 
> 1) Images are included in some (but not many) annotations.  Macbeth and the Divine Comedy are two specific books that come to mind for this.
> 
> 2) Some annotations are linked directly to others (via a permalink for each annotation).  Dante's Divine Comedy has most of these, though some Shakespeare plays do as well.
> 
> 3) There may also be some other metadata, such as "annotation type."  I believe we had a few tags, such as "potential spoiler," "historical context," and "close reading."  I think there were five categories in total, but I can't recall the others off the top of my head.
> 
> Last but not least, I would like to maintain the original finalsclub usernames for authorship of each annotation.  In order to properly cite FinalsClub.org, could you also place a link to our site with proper creative commons attribution in the footer of your site for each of the documents for which we provide annotations?  I'm flexible with how we do this, but it's good to get this discussion started now.
> 
> Thanks again for helping us get this knowledge out to the world.  I look forward to working with you in the near and long term.  And of course, please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
> 
> Warmly,
> Andrew Magliozzi
> Founder, FinalsClub.org
> 
> 
> PS - We'll be working to get you a more structured version of our data, but this format should suffice to get the project started.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> James Harriman-Smith
> Lecteur d'anglais
> ENS de Lyon
> Bureau F323
> 

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