http://blog.openshakespeare.org Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:18:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en See which includes full installation instructions. We've also reorganized the sites so that the news/blog is here at and the Shakespeare package web interface is at . Main changes include: * Major refactoring of internal code to be cleaner and simpler * A new cleaner and reorganized ... http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2008/10/29/shakespeare-v06-released/ Another 3 pages (4600 words) are up from the EB 11 Entry on Shakespeare covering most of Shakespeare's plays in chronological order. Current material can be found on: [Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition page](/eb11) Source version (plain text in subversion) can be found at: http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2008/06/01/more-text-up-from-shakespeares-entry-in-encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition/ After a fairly quiet period over the last 6 months development will be hotting up again thanks to discussion at [Open Knowledge 2008](http://www.okfn.org/okcon/2008) and the involvement of Iain Emsley (who will be focusing especially on a sister Milton project). To kick this off we're planning a mini-hackathon: * Wiki ... http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2008/04/20/open-shakespeare-milton-mini-hackathon-and-planning-session/ We've completed the proofing and correcting of the first 5 pages of Shakespeare's Entry from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. This is quite a bit of material (those EB pages are **big**) and includes full biography and a listing of plays. We're posting this material on this site on [Encyclopaedia Britannica ... http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2007/10/13/first-text-up-from-shakespeares-entry-in-1911-encyclopaedia-britannica/ Since the previous post we've succeeded in using tesseract and we now have a nice plain text version of the EB entry on shakespeare: What we now need to do is 'proof' this to correct the OCR errors. **This kind of think is perfect for distributed volunteers so if you'd ... http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2007/09/19/proof-editing-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 detailed in this ticket: We've now written code to grab the ... http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2007/08/14/ocring-shakespeare-entry-from-encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition/ A new version of open shakespeare is out. Get it via the code page: ### Changelog * Annotation of texts (js-based in browser) (ticket:20, ticket:21) () * Switch to unicode for internal string handling (resolves ticket:23: some texts breaking the ... http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2007/04/16/v04-of-open-shakespeare-released/ After another push over the last few days I've got the web annotation system for Open Shakespeare operational (we've been hacking on this on and off since back in December). To see the system in action visit: Quite a bit of effort has been made to decouple the annotation system from Open ... http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2007/04/10/annotation-is-working/ Adding [annotation support](http://project.knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/trac/ticket/20) to the texts in Open Shakespeare is the main item for the next 0.4 release. This is a rather large undertaking and the last 2 months has seen substantial work on the first stage in the form of porting Geof Glass' [marginalia](http://www.geof.net/code/annotation/) into a standalone [python package ... http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2007/02/03/porting-marginalia-annotation-to-python/ One of the main items scheduled for v0.4 of open shakespeare is improvements to the responsiveness of the concordance. Using the v0.3 codebase, using just the sonnets as test material, loading up the list of words for the concordance alone took around 24s on my laptop. This is because even ... http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2007/01/03/improvements-to-the-concordance/