[open-humanities] Announce for Open Literature Sprint

Thu Jan 9 14:43:23 UTC 2014

I'd be happy to send this out to the OpenGLAM list (we've announced the
event earlier through that list as well).

Best, Lieke

On 9 January 2014 13:16, Michelle Brook <michelle.brook at okfn.org> wrote:

> I'd be really interested in a list of digital humanities lists and University
> departments in London for some work on open access we've got coming up.
> Sadly I'm really run off my feet for the next few days so can't volunteer
> to gather this information.
>
> If someone else has time to do this research, I'd really appreciate it if
> they could share this information with me!
>
> Best,
> Michelle
>
>
> On 9 January 2014 12:09, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> On 6 January 2014 09:57, James Harriman-Smith <
>> james.harriman-smith at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Rufus, list,
>>>
>>> I started tweeting about the event over the weekend, and Sam Moore put
>>> the announce up on the Humanist mailing list this morning. Here, for anyone
>>> else reading this is the raw announcement:
>>>
>>
>> Is there a list of email lists / places to contact? My immediate thoughts
>> would be:
>>
>> - University departments in London
>> - digital humanities lists
>> - okfn-en list
>> - okfn-discuss
>> - okfn-labs
>> - ...
>>
>> We could then assign these to people.
>>
>> Also do we have an announce version that is usable (copy and paste) for
>> *mailing* lists.
>>
>> Also would be good to get blog posts up on
>> - Would be good to get a post on labs up
>>
>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Calling all those with an interest in bringing the humanities online:
>>>
>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation's Open Literature project is one dedicated
>>> sprint away from being ready to go online. This open service will offer
>>> anyone the opportunity to upload, analyse, present and annotate
>>> public-domain texts; it builds on the functionality of the OKF's recent <a
>>> href="
>>> http://openliterature.net/2013/03/12/o-brave-new-world-the-future-of-open-shakespeare-is-open-literature/
>>> ">Open Shakespeare</a> and <a href="http://textusproject.org/">Textus</a>
>>> Projects to become a tool of use to a great range of scholars in the
>>> humanities.
>>>
>>>
>> This is good but could we make it a bit terser :-) (can we make 1-2
>> sentences - and can we drop Textus reference etc etc). (Imagine no-one
>> clicks on the links ...)
>>
>>
>>>
>>>    - *When*: 25th January 2014, 11am – 6pm (if 11am is too early for
>>>    you it’s OK to join later!)
>>>
>>>
>>>    - *Where*: Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street,
>>>    London, WC1X 9NG
>>>
>>>
>> Mentions its 5m from Kings Cross (?). Link to a map (google or
>> openstreetmap)
>>
>>
>>>
>>>    - *Who*: Anyone interested in literature, philosophy and taking
>>>    these online
>>>
>>>
>>>    - *Signup*:
>>>    http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/London-GB/1070532/
>>>
>>>
>>>    - *Mailing list*: For updates, please join the Open Humanities
>>>    mailing list: open-humanities at lists.okfn.org
>>>
>>>
>>> More details about the day, including an overview of potential
>>> activities, are availbale on the Open Humanities Website:
>>> http://humanities.okfn.org/open-literature-sprint-jan-2014/
>>>
>>
>> People will rarely click on links so I'd inline here a bit more info
>> about what you can do on the day.
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>>
>>>
>>> If you have any questions, contact: james.harriman-smith at okfn.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> And a link to my tweet:
>>> https://twitter.com/jharrimansmith/statuses/419800411625623552
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6 January 2014 09:51, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi James,
>>>>
>>>> I was just wondering how the drafting of the announce for the sprint
>>>> was going? I think we want to push this out reasonably soon and having
>>>> something we can copy and paste to emails and blog posts would be amazing.
>>>>
>>>> Rufus
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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