[open-humanities] RSC's 'My Shakespeare' - open source with Open Shakespeare overlap

Mon Feb 27 14:17:30 UTC 2012

My reading is indeed optimistic. ;-)

But nevertheless would love to see if they are interested in linking
textual allusions to textual sources?

Can any of the more technical minds among us elucidate as to how
ambitious a project this would be - as a machine automated task?
Searching for bits of Shakespeare's texts and linking between mentions
and source texts? Perhaps a separate project unto itself - but one I'd
love to talk + think aloud about some more.

J.

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:33 PM, James Harriman-Smith
<open-shakespeare at okfn.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback: I'll get back in touch with them to book a space on
> their blog, and sign up for updates. Once they get a bit more precise about
> the project (i.e. say where their open-source code can be found), I'll let
> you know. For now, I must admit that I read the announcement the same way as
> Laura did...
>
> James
>
>
> On 25 February 2012 07:26, Laura James <laura.james at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> My interpretation is quite different to Jonathan's - I see no
>> reference to source texts, just to the social media stream referring
>> to Shakespeare (and then visualising/analysing this stream, etc).  But
>> perhaps source texts are something they would like to pull in as an
>> extra :) (or not - this sort of project is usually on a cripplingly
>> low budget)
>>
>> Open Shakespeare should definitely do a feature article for the site.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> --
>>
>> Dr Laura James
>> Foundation Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation
>>
>> http://okfn.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24 February 2012 20:18, Jonathan Gray <j.gray at cantab.net> wrote:
>> > This sounds very interesting indeed. It could be really interesting to
>> > discuss what technology they are using for the text of Shakespeare's
>> > plays - to see whether they have developer this and whether there
>> > might be any synergies with TEXTUS. In particular it would be really
>> > interesting to see whether they could use this in their system - to
>> > linke fine grained chunks of text to blog posts, tweets, articles and
>> > other Shakespeare related activity to!
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> >
>> > J.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:54 PM, James Harriman-Smith
>> > <open-shakespeare at okfn.org> wrote:
>> >> Hi everyone,
>> >>
>> >> I got this email from Royal Shakespeare Company the other day. It's
>> >> rather
>> >> long, so here are the essential points:
>> >>
>> >> - The RSC is creating "a place to imagine the world of Shakespeare
>> >> through a
>> >> C21st lens", an online aggregator of anything to do with Shakespeare on
>> >> twitter, fbook, blogs, etc.
>> >> - They have contributing blog authors, artists, and data visualisations
>> >> (See
>> >> attachment)
>> >> - It will launch in April 2012, and the source code will be made
>> >> available
>> >> - Updates here:
>> >> http://www.worldshakespearefestival.org.uk/projects/my-shakespeare.aspx
>> >>
>> >> Sounds interesting. Does anyone have any particular areas they'd like
>> >> to
>> >> collaborate on?
>> >>
>> >> James
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >> From: Sarah Ellis <sarah.ellis at rsc.org.uk>
>> >> Date: 21 February 2012 21:28
>> >> Subject: My Shakespeare [Scanned]
>> >> To: open-shakespeare at okfn.org
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi there
>> >>
>> >> I hope you don’t mind me contacting you.  I’m working on an online
>> >> project
>> >> called My Shakespeare for the Royal Shakespeare Company which will be
>> >> part
>> >> of the World Shakespeare Festival launching this April.  I’m getting in
>> >> touch as I would very much like to see if you’d be interested in the
>> >> project
>> >> with the possibility of contributing and linking up with Open
>> >> Shakespeare
>> >> which is a fantastic site. I hope that’s OK.
>> >>
>> >> My Shakespeare is an invitation for international audiences,
>> >> programmers and
>> >> artists to create a global conversation about Shakespeare online.  The
>> >> project has been created in response to the amount of user generated
>> >> content
>> >> already existing online with an aim to find meaning, new ways of
>> >> visualising
>> >> data and interpretation.  We are creating a site that will search for
>> >> pulses
>> >> of Shakespeare online which will be achieved through the searching the
>> >> channels, twitter, flickr, ebay and google.  It will find the heartbeat
>> >> of
>> >> Shakespeare online and share those findings on a timeline.  The site
>> >> will
>> >> ask questions, share findings and be a place to imagine the world of
>> >> Shakespeare through a C21st lens.
>> >>
>> >> The site will be punctuated by a series of articles and contributions
>> >> from
>> >> key thinkers, artists and collaborators that will respond to the site
>> >> itself
>> >> and broader topics and themes relating to each contributor.  We will
>> >> also
>> >> commission artists from around the work to create new work in response
>> >> to
>> >> the site which will appear on the site.
>> >>
>> >> The structure of the site will be as follows:
>> >>
>> >> Blog – This section will be for critical thinkers and commentators who
>> >> would
>> >> provoke further meaning and discussion around Shakespeare and other
>> >> topics.
>> >>
>> >> Main site – dynamic interface showing words which will move around the
>> >> screen that you can click on in order to explore the site, once you
>> >> click on
>> >> a word you will go on a user journey experience and receive a
>> >> visualisation
>> >> that shows your word appearing online over a period of time – 1 month,
>> >> 1
>> >> week, 1 day and 1 hour.  There will be a live twitter stream on the
>> >> site and
>> >> you may have a tweet with your word or a flickr image and you’ll be
>> >> able to
>> >> see it on the timeline.  This site will be as dynamic and playful as
>> >> possible.
>> >>
>> >> Visualisations – a dynamic clickable slide show of data visualisations
>> >> created by BVA and 3rd party programmers – you will be able to share
>> >> these
>> >> visualisations with your social media networks.  We hope to create as
>> >> many
>> >> as possible and explore possible stories and narratives.
>> >>
>> >> Artist commissions – we will commission artists to respond to the site
>> >> and
>> >> they will have an option of working with our technologists Bureau of
>> >> Visual
>> >> Affairs.  This will mean that they can be exploratory online if they
>> >> wish or
>> >> create work which is live and that is documented on the My Shakespeare
>> >> site.
>> >>
>> >> Wiki for 3rd party programmers – BVA have generously opened up their
>> >> site to
>> >> invite 3rd party programmers to play with the data they collect through
>> >> –
>> >> twitter, ebay and flickr.  They will create a wiki which 3rd party
>> >> programmers can use to source the data in order to create their own
>> >> visualisations. These have the capacity to look very different to the
>> >> BVA
>> >> visualisations.
>> >>
>> >> Social Media - There will be a live twitter feed sharing the new
>> >> visualisations as they happen which will link to the RSC facebook page.
>> >> Audiences will share and we will share with them what we find
>> >> interesting –
>> >> we will invite them to share the links in different ways for example,
>> >> the
>> >> ones they like most.  Programmers will also enjoy connecting with our
>> >> site
>> >> and champion their work and share it out to their networks as well.
>> >>
>> >> I was wondering if you would be interested in meeting up and talking
>> >> more
>> >> about the project.  It would be wonderful if you were interested in
>> >> contributing to the site and potentially writing an article or sharing
>> >> a
>> >> series of images or a video from your perspective and the work you're
>> >> doing
>> >> with Open Shakespeare.
>> >>
>> >> All the best and I look forward to hearing from you.
>> >>
>> >> Sarah
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> James Harriman-Smith
>> >> Open Literature Working Group Coordinator
>> >> Open Knowledge Foundation
>> >> http://okfn.org/members/jameshs
>> >> Skype: james.harriman.smith
>> >>
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