A collaboration between the Open Knowledge Foundation and
Goldsmiths University funded by JISC
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What is TEXTUS?
TEXTUS is the evolution of many years of work at the Open Knowledge Foundation dedicated to
building open-source platforms for accessing and collaborating around public domain texts in
the humanities. It builds on projects such as http://openshakespeare.org.
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Why TEXTUS?
• There are thousands of scattered electronic public domain texts online in places like Wikisource, Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg – they need to be brought together
• Existing platforms for accessing these texts do not store high quality metadata that is useful for scholarly research
• Most of the existing online public domain portals do not support user interaction and collaboration
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OpenPhilosophy.org will be
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On OpenPhilosophy.org you
will be able to…
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Read…
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Read…
• Seamless reading experience
• Skip to sections you want through hyperlinked tables of contents
• Display where you are in text
• Allow you to bring up original scans
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Annotate…
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Annotate…
• Basic annotation
• Link sections to other parts of text or other
resources
• Translate sections using annotation
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Search…
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Search…
• For an author
• For a text
• For a specific edition
• For a given term across a collection of
texts
• For a given term across a set of
annotations
• For particular kinds of annotation
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TEXTUS will enable you to…
• Reliably cite electronic editions of texts using URLs – allowing you choose the format of your reference
• Upload texts
• Export your own annotated editions of texts
• Create your own bibliographies and reading lists with links to freely available copies of those works
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TEXTUS will allow you to do all these things
and deliver them through a beautiful and
simple interface.
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What will OpenPhilosophy.org
look like?
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Front page
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Text view
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Author View
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List View
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Get Involved!
Are you a student or scholar working in the humanities?Test drive the BETA version, help us find interesting public domain resources onlineAre you a developer?Fork the code on GitHub, join the developer discussion, write import scriptsNeither or these but still interested?Introduce yourself on the Open Humanities Discussion List and join the conversation!
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Key Links
• Blog: http://textusproject.org/blog
• Discussion list sign up: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-humanities
• Developer discussion list:http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/humanities-dev
• Get stuck into the code:https://github.com/okfn/textus
• Tweet: @TEXTUSproject
• Email: [email protected]
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