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Meeting: 2012-01-18

January 18, 2012 in Minutes, News

Attending

  • James Harriman-Smith (JHS)
  • Sam Leon (SL)
  • Anna Powell-Smith (APS)
  • Laura James (LJ)
  • Pat Lockley (PL)
  • Iain Emsley (IE)
  • Etienne Posthumus (EP)
  • Rufus Pollock (RP)
  • Laura Newman (LN)

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • JISC Textus: Start of work?
  • OpenBiblio: Update
  • Open Shakespeare spring clean
  • Shape of the year? Events in the summer, OKCON, etc.

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Intros

Pat Lockley’s projects:

Domesday Map Update

BibServer

Open Shakespeare

  • Introduction to Henry VIII
  • New WOTD
  • 300th follower
  • Sub-meeting decides on:
    • Logging issues on github
    • Fix for concordancer issue, discussion re: jscript and CMS plugins
    • (see actions…)

TEXTUS

Home page: * http://wiki.okfn.org/Projects/Textus

  1. a JISC project running for 6 month projects with JISC funding, starting 1 Feb 2012, in collaboration with Goldsmiths “JISC TEXTUS”
    • project driven by academic needs with close collaboration with a research group
    • integration of existing tools into a platform researchers are using, rather than development of new code.
  2. Creating a platform demonstrating key functionality as a prototype for future TEXTUS:
    • lots more coming eg EU call in spring?
  3. The merging of Shakespeare/Literature platform with Jonathan’s published long term vision :)

Relevant code:

IE: @JG Can the Open Correspondence project come under the general platform as well?

Events for Open Humanities

  • Summer get-to-know-Open-Humanities event/hackday
  • Similar to http://thatcamp.org/ ?
  • EP: Maybe in conjunction with a scheduled event.

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