Open Shakespeare

v0.4 of Open Shakespeare Released

April 16th, 2007

A new version of open shakespeare is out. Get it via the code page:

http://www.openshakespeare.org/code/

Changelog

• Annotation of texts (js-based in browser) (ticket:20, ticket:21) (http://www.openshakespeare.org/2007/04/10/annotation-is-working/)
• Switch to unicode for internal string handling (resolves ticket:23: some texts breaking the viewer)
• Add functional tests for the web interface (ticket:11)
• Substantial improvements to speed of concordance (ticket:22) (http://www.openshakespeare.org/2007/01/03/improvements-to-the-concordance/)
• Switch to genshi templates from kid
• Switch to plain WSGI from cherrypy

Outstanding Issues

• Annotation cannot handle long texts because of javascript performance issues

About Open Shakespeare

A full open set of Shakespeare’s works along with anciallary material, a variety of tools and a python API.

For more information see the about page:

http://www.openshakespeare.org/about/

Get involved: http://www.openshakespeare.org/participate/

Mailing list: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss/

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