JHS IE

AGENDA

Planning for the autumn: principles? Promoting article series

ACTIONS

Email on okf discuss / humanities about BarCamp How do Panton principles apply to literature? – forward draft to email lists once you have something, cf jwyg

• Check out opendatacookbook.net
• Check out Panton Principles
• Good use of wiki.openliterature.net

Open Literature mailing lists – browse and encourage more direct participation from lurkers
Visualisations: of annotations on a specific text?
Future Hackday: for publishing open literature principles

NEXT MEETING

Sunday 18th September 3pm / 4pm: Agenda: future text camp, progress with principles

RP
JHS

AGENDA

• Text Camp organisation
• Administration
• Debrief

ACTIONS

• Ping mark re: openbibli lis; register
• Make clear that registration essential wiki and eventbrite empf free & sec
• Copy out of wiki
• Edit eventbrite to fri
• Research open guide
• Make sure new volunteers to LC
• Add counters / status bars on openlit / wiki
• Blogpost about editions

Details

• Where? Brettenham House, 9 Savoy Street, WC2E 7EG, London. – Meet outside ‘The Savoy Tup’ Pub, Savoy Street, at 10am to be guided to the venue.
• When? Saturday 13th August, 10am – 6pm
• What?A gathering for all those interested in the relation between technology and literature, with a specal focus on the creation of open knowledge.
• More details: http://wiki.openliterature.net/Text_Camp_2011
• Order (free) tickets: http://textcamp2011.eventbrite.com/
• Twitter: #tcamp11

Hope you can make it!

JHS
RP

AGENDA

Text Camp Activities

• Speakers?
• Topics?

Text Camp Attendance/admin

• JISC
• Promotional materials
• OKF presence

ACTIONS

• Ask wifi – remote attendance
  
  • irc channel, skype …
• Read up on XCamp activities
• Ping Ben O’Steen, Mark McGillivray (+ know anyone else?), UCL (esp. Bentham)
• Front page of wiki.openliterature.net – boxy setup as on http://wiki.okfn.org/
• Editable wiki for activities: ‘Lightning Talks’
• Add posts to OKF group wall
• Email participants to encourage: Wiki edits and join okfn group
• Sketch structure based on BarCamp / OpenSpaceTech

JHS
IE
LC

AGENDA

Concerns over Text Camp venue
Activities for Text Camp
Promotion for Text Camp

ACTIONS

Provide more details on text camp activities already listed
Add the following to list of activities:

• Project showcase
• Calendar
• Central activity description

Once venue confirmed:

• Email Ian for promo
• Contact:Jonathan Gray, Gutenberg, ebook companies, print-on-demand

At end of event:

• Aftermath blog post
• Enter all contact details into highrise

• TextCamp registration is going well. If you’re free on 13th August, why not come along? Please note that the venue is now TBC: http://textcamp2011.eventbrite.com
• Four new words this week for all: quail, magic, garter and elephant: http://openshakespeare.org/word
• New button on Open Literature and Open Shakespeare: 5 ways to help out in 5 minutes: http://openliterature.net/five-ways
• Using the annotateit API and Scribus, there is now a mock-up ‘open critical edition’ of Hamlet online: http://bit.ly/qaDLHd
• Welcome to our new volunteers!

Some things that you might like to do:

• Join us for a chat on Skype at 5pm on Monday 1st August (6pm in the UK, 7pm in Western Europe, 1pm in Massachusetts)
• Email your comments on our mock-up edition of Hamlet to this list: http://bit.ly/qaDLHd
• Comment on / email observations about the state of our application to Inventare il Futuro: http://bit.ly/qrPb0r
• Tell me whether you think a print-on-demand edition of word of the day articles as a ‘Shakespeare A-Z’ would be a good idea / promotional tool for Open Shakespeare.

A Special announcement

OKF Text Camp – 13th August 2011, 10am-6pm, London
Tickets (free) on:http://textcamp2011.eventbrite.com
Details on: http://wiki.openliterature.net/Text_Camp_2011

Sundry news

• http://openliterature.net now carries minutes of meetings, and copies of these mails under http://openliterature.net/category/minutes
• http://wiki.openliterature.net now includes an archive of promotional material, and all the previous contents of the Open Shakespeare wiki
• H G Wells society sent us an email on Monday saying that they are very interested by http://annotateit.org and that they will discuss using the anotator on their online editions of his works.
• Open Shakespeare’s new words of the day this week: Vizard, Xantippe, Yoke, and Zany: all on http://openshakespeare.org/word – which now has one entry for every letter of the alphabet
• In September, Open Shakespeare will carry a series of guest blog posts on the topic ‘Shakespeare and the Internet’: I have seven confirmed contributors from many different walks of life (actors, academics, bloggers) and look forward to organising others, especially those with a computer science background (if that’s you, let me know).

A few ideas on how to get involved:

• Contribute a blog post on ‘Shakespeare and the Internet’: anything of between 500 and 1000 words in length that fits into this category will be very welcome. Just drop me a mail with any questions.
• Book a place at Text Camp 2011, or suggest an activity
• Write a WOTD article (some ideas: elephant, quail, garter)
• Annotate a Shakespeare play: we’re getting near 700 individual comments now!

When? 13th August 2011, 10am – 6pm Where? To be Confirmed Website: http://wiki.openliterature.net/Text_Camp_2011 Register: http://textcamp2011.eventbrite.com

During the day, we hope to create, discuss and maybe even publish ‘open literature’, which is to say that we will work on both texts that are in (and about) the public domain, and on the open-source tools for the analysis and appreciation of these works.

Planned activities include:

• Discussion and/or hacking of 2 231 texts recently released from Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) with the help of the Text Creation Partnership
• Coming up with ideas for and perhaps composing a web based narrative.
• Writing a guide to creative commons and related licenses as regards literary productions.
• Working out how to build an online community around a work of literature, with advice on the process of receiving edits to one’s own online work.
• And, of course, much much more…

Why not suggest your own ideas? or take a look at the wiki for the event?

Rufus Pollock
James Harriman-Smith

AGENDA

Establish long-term aims for Open Literature
Establish short term actions

LONG TERM

Integration into schools
Integration into universities
Funding
Spread internationally
Improvements to annotator: profile page, facebook

ACTIONS

Events

Write to annotator-dev re: treasure hunt
Text Camp: write Iain, write Kat for use of room on Friday 12th / Saturday 13th August
Skype-up: organise for Tuesdays – if that works for Iain

Volunteers

Connect to more blogs, write about them
Guest introducer for Hamlet prototype
More guest writers: introductions and blogs
List volunteering options on openliterature sidebar

Writing

Finish Introductions
Finish WOTDs: yoke, zany
Write Openlit / S piece

Admin

Invoice Rufus
Enter NESTA meeting people into highrise, tag with openlit, note date
Expand openlit wiki: move from wiki.okfn.org (use open spending as a model), blurbs, links to pictures/big pdfs on archive.org
Create openshakespeare editor profile on annotateIT

Funding

NESTA application with arts partner (?)
Complete Inventare application

Tech

Install wordpress on local machine
Run tests for UI on balsamiq
Publish Hamlet prototype

Rufus

RP: Fix Henry VI Introductions
RP: automate WOTD
RP: Fix stats page
RP: Change anonymous annotation users to Shakespeare

Thursday 14th July saw our third annotation sprint, which pushed our annotation count up to 649 from 440. This means an average of over 200 comments per sprint, but, as previous sprints lasted for two days, this also suggests that this sprint had the highest level of participation yet.

The participants themselves, to judge from the analytics, were comprised of our regulars and 60 unique new visitors, many of whom must have stayed a little while in order to push the average time spent on the website up to five minutes for that day. As regards the provenance of these newcomers, thirty-seven were from the UK, fourteen from the States and the rest from all over the world, with five from India. Chrome was, surprisingly perhaps, the most popular browser, followed by Firefox, IE and then Safari.

Enough statistics. It was great to see the number of annotations shoot up, and I feel that we are almost at the point where we can produce at least a prototype edition of Hamlet!