[open-humanities] OpenLiterature v1.0 - let's do a reboot!

Mon Feb 23 09:34:34 UTC 2015

Good points Iain. And it'd be great if you could give a little time to this
once you've made it through those deadlines.

To carry on the discussion, with a bit of reprise for those joining us
here. My suggested MVP was:

Agreed by Iain:
1. Upload of texts in a simple format, ideally one used on Gutenberg
2. Allow those texts to be annotated by users publicly

Questioned:
3. Make annotations and texts searchable

I think #3 is very important: it would allow someone to use the platform
for research far more effectively. I, for instance, often find myself
looking for ideas in my notes, jotted down in response to a passage, and no
longer remembering the phrase that triggered my idea.

That said, I don't think #3 is essential. Open Literature can be
demonstrated without it, and will still be useful. What do others think
here?

J

On 23 February 2015 at 09:51, Iain Emsley <iainemsley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> @rufus , +1 for the reminder and enthusiasm :)
>
> @james: a discussion of the minimal viable product would be useful to
> provide a goal. Is #3, the search a first to do, or a rapid second? Whilst
> I agree that it is necessary, do we need it initially? #2 is the part where
> my earlier effort stalled in terms of integrating the existing JS and
> Wordpress.
>
> As with others, I'm tied up at the moment but _should_ have more time at
> the end of next month when some deadlines have passed by.
>
> Iain
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 7:32 AM, James Harriman-Smith <
> james.harriman-smith at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear list, Rufus, John,
>>
>> @John: it's great to see some maintenance on the Open Humanities
>> collection of websites happening, and a wiki booted for our activities.
>>
>> @Rufus, all: it's true that Open Literature has gone dormant of late, and
>> definitely needs a reboot. I'm afraid that, like John though, I don't have
>> time to give at the moment, as I'm writing up my thesis and trying to
>> secure some kind of paid academic employment for next year.
>>
>> That said, I think we could at least email about the minimum viable
>> product for Open Literature, to know what we have to do when we all have a
>> little more time.
>>
>> I'll start that in my next mail.
>>
>> J
>>
>> On 16 February 2015 at 09:19, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 15 February 2015 at 15:10, John Levin <john at anterotesis.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Regret I have very limited time - and am out of the UK - at the moment.
>>>> In any case it seems that the work to be done is mainly technical, coding,
>>>> at this point. Once Textus is up and running, then the non-techie humanists
>>>> can get stuck in, putting up texts etc.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I would say there is need right now for a lot of *non*-techincal
>>> engagement - from being site editor, to blogging, tweeting, writing new
>>> essays, doing user testing, coordinating, organizing events. So would
>>> definitely welcome non-technical folks here :-)
>>>
>>> A couple of side-matters:
>>>> 1: Is this the OL twitter account? https://twitter.com/OpenLiterature
>>>> Is anyone looking after it?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No - but we could (i also wonder if we should move over OpenShakespeare
>>> to here since it already has quite a few followers)
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2: I have cleared spam and pending spam from the OL & Open Hums
>>>> wordpress sites.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Amazing!
>>>
>>>
>>>> 3: Fixed the links in this post:
>>>> http://openliterature.net/2011/09/05/shakespeare-and-the-internet/
>>>> which were directing to Open Shakespeare & 404ing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Fantastic - and thanks!
>>>
>>> Rufus
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> On 15/02/2015 14:39, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I wanted to restart the conversation on getting OpenLiterature v1.0
>>>>> launched. In terms of key steps:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Identify the minimal viable product for OpenLiterature.net
>>>>>
>>>>> This also relates to minimal viable "Textus" platform to power this
>>>>> (for
>>>>> background and slide deck see http://okfnlabs.org/textus/). At present
>>>>> the key things would be finishing the viewer JS lib (we are 80% there)
>>>>> and integrating this into the wordpress site.
>>>>>
>>>>> Requirement: a discussion on this list
>>>>>
>>>>> We already have an issue list
>>>>> <https://github.com/okfn/openliterature.net/issues> that could be
>>>>> useful
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Estimate work and skills needed
>>>>>
>>>>> My guess is we are talking about 3-6 person weeks here to get to MVP -
>>>>> though we would need to properly estimate.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Recruit team
>>>>>
>>>>> Anticipate roles like:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Product Owner
>>>>> - Cat herder (scrum master)
>>>>> - Site Editor
>>>>> - Designer
>>>>> - Frontend JS (viewer)
>>>>> - Wordpress Plugin write (PHP)
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably work asynchronously around a series of sprints (e.g. a few
>>>>> weekend or Saturday sprints)
>>>>>
>>>>> Who's interested? In particular, who would be interested in
>>>>> coordinating
>>>>> the initial phase of getting us all moving again?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rufus
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> John Levin
>>>> http://www.anterotesis.com
>>>> http://twitter.com/anterotesis
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