Attending

James Harriman-Smith

Working group coordinator, calling from Lyon. Project: Open Shakespeare: http://openshakespeare.org. (@openshakespeare)

Sam Leon

Community Coordinator at the OKFN. I work on the the digital humanities, public domain and am also Volunteer Coordinator for the OKFN.

Anna Powell-Smith

Random coder, front-end web developer, previously worked on OpenSpending, calling from Staffordshire – Domesday Book at http://domesdaymap.co.uk – interested in transcription software for Domesday – involved as technical advisor on British Academy funding bid for new edition of Domesday

Etienne Posthumus

Developer from Amsterdam, The Netherlands – among other things working on OKFN BibServer Humanities interest: http://iconclass.org/

Iain Emsley

Open Correspondence, Open Milton and bits and pieces.

Mark MacGillivray

Open biblio

Agenda

• Introductions
• What should be our priorities?
  • TEXTUS – hopefully hear about initial round of funding in next few weeks
  • OPEN READING – very similar to Textus, won funding.
  • http://www.openannotation.org/
• Events?
  • Potential for using Open Biblioto host some Open Hum events in the next six months.
  • Ping James if you know of an event that is relevant to Open Hum and want it to go up on the blog calendar.
  • DevCSI: http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/about/
• Can we deprecate Open Litterature now?
  • No, it will be left where it is
• Does anyone know what this is?
  • http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Humanities

Actions

• JHS: Write blog post announcing Humanities website ready (and ping Open Hum list) – this will be cross posted to main OKFN blog
• JHS: Update calendar
  • Write to Mark with ideas for DevCSI: http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/about/
• JHS: Contact old group, Simon Worthington

Next meeting: Wednesday 18th January, 5 pm: see calendar