[open-humanities] non-technical assistance

Wed Feb 25 11:27:17 UTC 2015

Yes I did.

What we need right now is also someone who may offer to informally
coordinate - e.g. schedule some calls as I sense that James
(Harriman-Smith) who has done an awesome job of this is a currently tied up
in the final throes of a PhD! (@James: is that right?)

Rufus

On 24 February 2015 at 19:28, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <
todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for breaking this all down for me Rufus. I'm very excited about the
> future of annotatorjs/Open Annotations on the one hand and Textus on the
> other (as you've noted the differences).
>
> Did you see my additions to the wiki? Anything I'm missing?
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 23 February 2015 at 18:57, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <
>> todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Rufus.
>>>
>>> Also, has AnnotateIt been fully retired (aside from the running web
>>> services)? As I understand it, the team is working on other projects
>>> related to the
>>>
>>
>> That's basically correct. The new annotation system we had for Textus was
>> based off a new setup anyway (Textus texts allow for a much better form of
>> annotation than when trying to annotate any web text).
>>
>>
>>> Open Annotation pieces (annotatorjs.org, hypothes.is, etc.). And do we
>>> consider TEXTUS part of the Humanities group or a humanities project by the
>>> OKFN Labs?
>>>
>>
>> Re other Open Annotation, we obviously are very excited about annotatorjs
>> (which we created) and hypothes.is. I would reiterate that for static
>> texts in the Textus structure, the whole point is you can do annotation in
>> a much easier and nicer way (you don't need to run off addressing into the
>> DOM) and that's what Textus' viewer
>> <https://github.com/okfn/textus-viewer> takes advantage of.
>>
>> I think we consider Textus (as technical project) something that is both
>> in Labs and as part of this humanities group. Labs is like another working
>> group and working groups do not need to be exclusive with projects :-)
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>>
>>>
>>> </endQuestions>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 23 February 2015 at 17:46, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <
>>>> todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Derek,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for chiming in! I've been a lurker on and off so here's to
>>>>> lurkers! Anyhow, I started a bit of barnraising on the OK wiki and will
>>>>> have more added soon. I did have one question for the list though: is Open
>>>>> Literature the parent project for Open Shakespeare, Open Milton, Open
>>>>> Correspondence?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Great question. Simple answer:
>>>>
>>>> OpenShakespeare + OpenMilton => Open Literature (i.e. they are subsumed
>>>> into OpenLiterature or rather OpenLiterature evolved out of them)
>>>>
>>>> OpenCorrespondence is separate though one could imagine combining it in
>>>> too.
>>>>
>>>> Rufus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers!
>>>>>
>>>>> –Tod
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Derek,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Great to hear from you and we definitely need HTML help! As a first
>>>>>> action could you add yourself to the wiki page under contacts:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Humanities
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rufus
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 23 February 2015 at 14:06, Derek DiMatteo <
>>>>>> derek.dimatteo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My name's Derek and I've been lurking for a bit on this list. I'm a
>>>>>>> grad student at Indiana University, Bloomington (USA), and although I study
>>>>>>> primarily contemporary literature, I'm interested in the OpenLiterature
>>>>>>> project because it's similar to an idea I've been kicking around for a few
>>>>>>> years.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My technical skills are currently limited to HTML (alas, I haven't
>>>>>>> done any Perl, PHP, or JavaScripting since 2002, and have quite forgot the
>>>>>>> little I'd taught myself). However, I saw that John Levin (?) wrote that
>>>>>>> there is need for some non-technical folk to help out, so I thought I'd
>>>>>>> stop lurking and offer my assistance. I have limited time to commit, but
>>>>>>> I'd like to contribute somehow.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Derek DiMatteo
>>>>>>>
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