Category Archives: Technical
Success in Inventare il Futuro Competition
By James Harriman-Smith and Primavera De Filippi On the 11th July, the Open Literature (now Open Humanities) mailing list got an email about a competition being run by the University of Bologna called ‘Inventare il Futuro’ or ‘Inventing the Future’. … Continue reading
Open Shakespeare at NESTA
My trip to speak at a ‘digital day’ organised as part of the new ‘Digital Fund for Arts and Culture’ by NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) was eye-opening, to say the least. I thought I’d put … Continue reading
Open Shakespeare at OKCon 2011
OKCon 2011, at the Kalkscheune buildings in Berlin, was fantastic, and I thought it would be a good idea to publish a few reflections on some of the stuff that was going on there, both for the benefit of those … Continue reading
How to Participate in the Annotation Sprint
The votes are in! We are annotating Hamlet Until 11:30am you can: Vote for the play to be annotated Any feedback, or thoughts? Use the etherpad to leave your thoughts about the event. How to Participate Step 0: Check your … Continue reading
Online Editions of Shakespeare
The story of Shakespeare on the internet is a tangled tale, and this post is an attempt to unravel it. In expounding the advantages and shortcomings of online editions, I hope also to explain a few of the problems Open … Continue reading
Shakespeare Quarterly part II
Here, for those interested, is my response to Professor Andrew Murphy’s article in the Shakespeare Quarterly: “I am a member of the Open Shakespeare Project (www.openshakespeare.org – not to be confused with Open Source Shakespeare) and found this article extremely … Continue reading
Annotation is here!
The fabled ability to annotate any text of Shakespeare is now part of the Open Shakespeare website! Massive thanks to Nick for all his work on something far too complex for me to even describe its complexity (apparently there were … Continue reading
Editions
There’s a famous line in Hamlet: “O that this too too solid flesh would melt” (1.ii.129). Not only is it the start of an agonised soliloquy in which Hamlet tortures himself over his mother’s apparent desire for her dead husband’s … Continue reading
XML and the Natural Language Toolkit
I’ve been playing with the nltk (natural language toolkit) and the really useful Jon Bosak xml annotated corpus these days, and this are some of the graphs I’ve been able to parse after analyzing the speech of the main characters … Continue reading
OCRing Shakespeare Entry from Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition
One of next things we want to do for open shakespeare is provide an open introduction for to his works. The obvious idea for this was to use the Shakespeare entry in the 11th ed of the Encyclopaedia Britannica as … Continue reading