Description: A regularly-updated library of curated excerpts from texts in the public domain, and a tool for creating dynamic anthologies. The site would feature not complete works (like Public Domain Review), not quotations, and not just page images, but deliberately selected and edited passages no shorter than a paragraph, no longer than a short article or story, tagged in various ways to create a library of interconnected selections.
Project Coordinator: David Clark Resources Needed:
We agree to the OKF project criteria. submitted 15 Jan, 19:59 DaveClark |
Hi Dave, This is a very interesting idea. Have you had a look at the concept for one of the projects that I and others at the OKFN will begin work on in Feb called TEXTUS (http://blog.okfn.org/2011/12/20/textus-an-open-source-platform-for-working-with-collections-of-texts-and-metadata/)? There is some synergy between that and what you suggest, although TEXTUS focusses on full public domain works rather than excerpts. If you're interested I could keep you in the loop about TEXTUS, and we could discuss the possibility of making it support excerpts from public domain texts. Sam Leon http://okfn.org/members/samleon/ solved 16 Jan, 09:42 Sam ♦♦ |
Please do keep me in the loop about TEXTUS. You're right that the two projects would be complementary. Work done for TEXTUS (especially transcriptions and translations) could provide material for excerpts. And any excerpt on a public domain "reader" should of course connect the audience to the full text -- so in this case, the excerpt could link to a TEXTUS resource. solved 16 Jan, 19:06 DaveClark |
I've started working on this project on my own, using Django as the application framework. If anybody is interested in collaborating with me, helping either with coding, data structure, and development or with selecting content, please email me at david dot dave dot clark at gmail. solved 13 May, 16:47 DaveClark |