[open-literature] Open Literature Bulletin

Fri Jul 8 15:14:01 UTC 2011

Cheers Jonathan. I blog at openliterature.net/news now, with Shakespeare
stuff appearing at openshakespeare.org/news too
As for the twitter: @openshakespeare broadcasts most of the stuff :-)

On 8 July 2011 16:02, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> Fantastic work James! Are you blogging/Tweeting about any of this?
> There's so much good stuff happening, that it might be also worth
> posting a weekly update! :-)
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:59 PM, James Harriman-Smith
> <open-shakespeare at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > I changed the title of this bulletin to reflect efforts to increase the
> > coordination and usage of 'open literature' at the OKF.
> > Lots of news this week:
> > - http://openliterature.net/ has launched
> > - New Words of the Day: alabaster, ebony, and (forthcoming) jump, keep
> > watching: http://openshakespeare.org/word
> > - Open Shakespeare was presented at a NESTA event in
> > London: http://openshakespeare.org/2011/07/08/open-shakespeare-at-nesta
> > - New essay on Shakespeare and the
> > City:
> http://openshakespeare.org/2011/07/08/james-harriman-smith-shakespeare-and-the-city-the-theatrical-city
> > - Andrew Murphy has agreed to write a guest blog post about Open
> > Shakespeare: bio here: http://tinyurl.com/5voq8jx
> > - A sixth form teacher in Hertfordshire has agreed to trial Open
> Shakespeare
> > as a learning tool for students tackling Twelfth Night
> > - There is now a crowdfunder project for printing an Open Shakespeare
> > Edition of
> > Hamlet:
> http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/investment/hamlet-first-ever-crowd-sourced-copyright-free-edition-of-the-play-277
> > - Preliminary interview about annotateit between OKF members and
> Cambridge
> > University journalist
> > - Public domain translations of Hamlet into Finnish, Portuguese, and
> German
> > unearthed: will be uploaded soon.
> > Some things to do:
> > - Tell me what you think of the new http://openliterature.net/  site
> (looks,
> > utitlity...)
> > - Try out the annotator on any website, not just Open Shakespeare:
> > visit http://annotateit.org/ and click on "Sign up now >>"
> > Have a great weekend everyone,
> > James
> >
> >
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>
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>
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