[open-literature] Open Letters project

Tue Apr 20 19:33:36 UTC 2010

Rufus and everybody,

Great, many thanks. I've started porting the parsing code and the 
framework from the existing PHP and into Python. Just tidying it up and 
joining the dots as 'twere with the various parts.

I've added notes for places to improve the parsing and bits and bobs 
I've been thinking about. I'll also start creating some tickets on Trac 
so feature requests welcome :)

Anyhow, as well as the stuff I've been working on in the evenings, I was 
thinking of doing a hack on Saturday, May 1st, probably in the afternoon 
from around 2pm.

Hope to see folks on Saturday in London,

Iain

Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Iain has started an "open letters" project (anyone interested is
> welcome to participate!):
>
>
> On 28 March 2010 12:56, print.crimes <print.crimes at yatterings.com> wrote:
>   
>> Following on other parts of the conversation, I've started on moving the
>> current incarnation of the letters project to Redis/Python. I also mentioned
>> it to Stuart Dunn at King's college/AHeSSC (who has passed it onto another
>> colleague) and there does seem to be an interest in it from them and the
>> notion of mining the social graph. I've registered it on Knowledgeforge and
>> CKAN so will try to get a move on in getting the code
>> online.(http://knowledgeforge.net/project/letters/)
>>     
>
> Okay, so I've created a mercurial repo here:
> https://knowledgeforge.net/letters/hg
>
> I have then:
>
> a) created a basic pylons project which we can use for the site
>
> b) (in /viz/ directory) moved over my existing work on dickens letters
> (http://rufuspollock.org/code/dickens) and did some minor
> tidying/integration. This contains code to:
>
>   * Load basic json data both simply and into RDF
>   * Visualizations:
>     * basic star social network (using networkx)
>     * circular 'clock' image based on idea of ben o' steen (more work needed)
>
> I've uploaded resulting visualizations here:
>
> <http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Open_Letters/Gallery>
>
> Rufus
>
>
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