Open Literature

This website was created as a way of bringing together all the current and future elements of the Open Knowledge Foundation‘s Working Group on Literature. This site will gather news about all our literary projects, and we encourage you to submit new authors for consideration and new ideas for open-source tools. More details about who we are and what we do can be found in the about section.

All material on this website and those of our projects is o pen, free to use, reuse, and redistribute, and subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.

We are excited to announce a new article series on Shakespeare and the Internet, running from September 12th to October 10th. Check out all the details, with links to the contributors on our introductory post.

Projects

Open Shakespeare

Open Shakespeare provides the complete works of Shakespeare, along with textual apparatus (introduction, notes) and tools (concordance, search, annotation, word frequency, etc.) all in an open form.

Open Milton

Open Milton is the sister site of Open Shakespeare, demonstrating the ease with which Open Shakespeare‘s code may be adapted to other uses.

Open Correspondence

Visualisation of Dickens' correspondence Open Correspondence allows its users to explore the correspondence – and the social networks – of the nineteenth century literary world. At the moment the project currently contains some of the letters of Charles Dickens but we’re working to expand to it include many other authors such as Jane Austen, George Eliot and Byron.