[open-humanities] non-technical assistance

Fri Feb 27 10:19:31 UTC 2015

Hi all,

And, yes, @Rufus, I'm just too deep in the thesis rush to organise stuff
properly at the moment. Hence my delayed reply here, snatched from time
between the writing of chapter and the composition of a half-dozen job
applications.

That said, I am still reading everything on the list. And will chime in
with ideas whenever I have a moment. I'm delighted to see some more
interest in Open Humanities, particularly from Todd and Derek.

@Todd and @Derek (and indeed @everyone else): do you fancy contributing to
the discussion of a Minimal Viable Product for Textus? Rufus, Iain Emsley
and I have started something on another thread, and more voices are
definitely needed:
https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-humanities/2015-February/000738.html
was the last message.

Best wishes,

J

On 25 February 2015 at 12:27, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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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James Harriman-Smith
Ph.D. Candidate, English Faculty
Peterhouse
University of Cambridge
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