Introduction to TEXTUS

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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