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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Updates to Open Shakespeare

Jonathan Gray, What can you do with Open Shakespeare?, Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog, September 26, 2008.

We’ve recently updated Open Shakespeare. The project was started a while back as an open knowledge ‘exemplar project’ - i.e. as a simple ‘hello world’ type open knowledge package (for more on this see the FAQ).

It aims to:

  1. Provide the complete works of Shakespeare, along with textual apparatus (introduction, notes) and tools (concordance, search etc) all in an open form.
  2. Deliver this material as a knowledge package that allows for easy deployment, redistribution and reuse.

Recent changes include: