[open-humanities] Open Shakespeare Paper

Fri Mar 9 16:45:59 UTC 2012

James: this looks excellent.

I would include mention of the interpretation of Shakespeare, and what
these different systems could (and perhaps also what they couldn't)
contribute to Shakespeare scholarship.

J.

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:34 AM, James Harriman-Smith
<open-shakespeare at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just finished a short draft proposal for an article on Open
> Shakespeare. I intend to submit it to an upcoming Shakespeare Yearbook
> issue on digital Shakespeares, and it can be no longer than 200 words.
> Any feedback would be very welcome. (particularly, @Jonathan - do you
> have any tips for getting this kind of article accepted?)
>
> -------
> ***The Evolution of Shakespeare Texts Online: Readers and Users***
>
> In 1999, Darcy Dinucci announced the “first glimmerings of Web
> 2.0”.[1] Now, at a time when the internet is more  than ever what Tim
> Berners-Lee called the “Read/Write Web”, this paper asks how this
> broad shift in conceptions of the online medium has effected the
> presentation of Shakespeare’s texts in particular.[2]
>
> An analysis of four websites – Project Gutenberg (1971), the Internet
> Shakespeare Editions (ISE, 1999), Open Source Shakespeare (2003),  and
> Open Shakespeare (2007)– will form the backbone of my discussion.[3]
> To Project Gutenberg’s public domain texts, Open Source Shakespeare
> adds a concordance and other means with which the user can manipulate
> the work; like Gutenberg, the ISE project provides texts, but goes
> further with the addition of reputable, peer-reviewed annotations;
> like the ISE, Open Shakespeare also includes annotations, but these
> can be contributed by anyone, identifiably or anonymously.
>
> In each case, and with relation to questions of copyright, textual
> reliability, service usability, trustworthiness and more, I intend to
> show the limits and advantages of these online editions of
> Shakespeare. Beyond this, I will ask to what extent visitors to these
> websites are best characterised as users or readers; in other words,
> to what extent does the activity of reading still structure such
> online experience of Shakespeare’s texts?
> -------
>
> The original call for contributions here:
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-humanities/2012-February/000277.html
>
> Have a good weekend,
>
> James
>
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