Present

James Harriman-Smith (JHS) Tod Robbins (TR) Rufus Pollock (RP) Sam Leon (SL) Tom Oinn (TO)

Apologies

Anna Powell-Smith.

Agenda

• Feedback from last week http://humanities.okfn.org/2012/01/18/meeting-2012-01-18/
• Project Updates
• TEXTUS update
• OKFest
• OKF in US

Summary

Last Meeting

• James to follow up on unfinished actions

Project Updates

• Open Shakespeare, now on Github:
• http://github.com/okfn/shakespeare

• http://github.com/okfn/shakespeare-material

• Open Correspondence

• Definitely worth discussing integration with Textus, but HyperNotes might also be a possibility (http://hypernotes.dev.okfn.org/)
• Some of the Open Correspondence data is now in Bibserver, XML into JSON over the weekend
• Perhaps could be tied in with the Dickens anniversary celebrations?

TEXTUS

• Sign up for TEXTUS user testing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEhSTy1rYk9pOFNzbTJZUmt5NDRJZEE6MQ – please circulate
• Tentative slides for tomorrow – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14Z_LJZYqw86VT2aBhgPToX8z80wH8dfKykvqx-h0pao/edit (not really meant to be stand-alone)
  • Potential danger of defining ‘annotation’ so formally, when the word is used widely and loosely across the OKF?
• More information about TEXTUS
  • https://github.com/okfn/textus
  • http://wiki.okfn.org/Projects/Textus
• TEXTUS emails should be kept on the Open Humanities list, until they become too numerous:
  • http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-humanities
  • http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/humanities-dev
  • Pure philosophy questions will remain on Open Philosophy, in order to insulate the Open Philosophy advisory board

OKF in the USA and elsewhere

• All OKF members should really be signed up and visible on http://okfn.org/members
• One example of USA project is the Annotator: http://okfnlabs.org/annotator/
• THATcamp: lots in the states, and one for SL and JHS to investigate in Luxembourg: http://luxembourg2012.thatcamp.org/

Actions

• ALL: Sign up to http://okfn.org/members
• RP: Fix OS concordancer
• IE: Celebrate Dickens’ birthday? – http://blog.archive.org/2012/02/07/please-sir-i-want-some-more/
• SL: Put documents from Goldsmiths on Open Humanities
• SL: combine Open Humanities and Textus lists
• SL: Open Correspondence & https://republicofletters.stanford.edu/
• JHS / SL: http://luxembourg2012.thatcamp.org/
• JHS: Write Kat and Laura Newman re: OKFest
• JHS: bug sysadmin re: despamming on wiki.openliterature.net – http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/1106
• JHS: Ping Etienne about last month
• JHS: write blog post about repo

Next Meeting: 21st March 2012, 5pm GMT

Sunday 20th November 2011

Present

• James Harriman-Smith
• Rufus Pollock
• Nick Stenning
• Andrew Magliozzi
• Mark MacGillivray

Agenda

• Incorporation of FinalsClub annotations
• Funding priorities for the annotator / other projects related to Open Reading
• Site migration and update
• Review of actions from last meeting

Humanities WG Meetings

• http://doodle.com/6iqsgh4egmpcikeb

Actions

• Send out email for doodle poll: short and sweet, announce final orders
• Ask Nick about Annotator
• Update good annotations to be uneditable — Admin interface for AnnotateIt

Present

JHS PdF

Agenda

• Mutual congratulations
• Establish priorities for funding: €3 500
• Call for contributors?
• Announce victory on blog.okfn?

Actions

• JH-S: Write blog post about victory (signed with both out names) JH-S: Write a list of tasks before Monday – following, in order of priority – ALL OKF:
• Modify annotator store back-end to allow collections
• Collection plug-in for annotator front-end
• Make the exportation of annotations easier
  PdF: Write a list of tasks before Monday
• new flowcharts: we currently have 31countries, we need to cover the whole world ! –Create bounty
• new calculators: we currently only have 2 flowcharts implemented into code, we need to implement them all ! – Already planned (200)
• new databases: we currently can connect only with bibliographica and europeana, we want to connect with as many databases as possible ! – Create mini-bounties: (a) identify & assess DB’s (b) metadata search-integration
• link to digital copies: we currently do not provide a link to any digital copy of public domain works, we need to implement that feature in order enable digital annotation of works ! (OKF job)
  Monday:
• Announce victory, call for contributions, don’t set pay for tasks
• PdF: Ping about logistics on Monday

Present

RP JHS EM IE AJM – FinalsClub.org

Agenda

• Working group operation (and open humanities)
  • Getting people involved
  • Bi-weekly meetings (once a (or every 2) month have a big meeting with a theme?)
• Future infrastructure – we have to sort it out …
• Open Literature manual and principles
• Projects: future and rebooting current ones
  • Publicity?
• Essays section on Open Shakespeare
• Automate WOTD (?)
• Theme and operation of openliterature.net
  • Why change: ability to edit top menu, consistent with other wordpress
• Administrative: sort out etherpad

Actions

• [JHS]: ping open-literature and open-humanities announcing merger of humanities WG and literature WG. Will merge mailing lists (converging on open-humanities). List of resources is below.
• [JHS]: subscribe everyone from open-literature to open-humanities (get list of people in text file in form: {Name} <{email}> and then copy and paste into subscription form.
  • [JHS]: hide open-literature (untick box saying advertise this list …)
  • [JHS]: anywhere there are links to that mailing list update them to open-humanities …
• [JHS] Sort out http://humanities.okfn.org/
  • As per http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Guide#Suggested_Website_Structure
• [RP]: boot an email address humanities@okfn.org -> okfn.humanities@gmail.com + james
  • [JHS]: boot gmail address
  • (openliterature@okfn.org -> redirect to that)
• [JHS]: Create http://humanities.okfn.org/meetings and list next meetings (most important is WG meetings)
  • [IE]: doodle poll for day of week / time … (Tuesday 5pm is OKF central meetup).
• [IE]: check transfer of wiki.okfn.org/Projects/Open_Shakespare (mostly done). If so can we please put at top of wiki.okfn.org page a big sign saying: gone to -> … *[IE] to work on getting open correspondence into the existing okfn/bibserver code for textualise

Summary

Working group operation (and open humanities)

• Agreed: merge open-literature list with open-humanities
• Agreed: merge working groups.
  • Website: http://humanities.okfn.org/
  • Wiki: http://wiki.openliterature.net/ / http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Humanities
  • Mailing list: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-humanities
  • Email: humanities@okfn.org
  • openhumanities on twitter?
  • etherpad -> humanities.okfnpad.org
• Todo: sort out http://humanities.okfn.org/
  • As per http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Guide#Suggested_Website_Structure

Getting people involved

• Move content from http://wiki.okfn.org/Projects/Open_Shakespeare to wiki.openliterature.net
  • JHS: mostly done. If so can we please put at top of wiki.okfn.org page a big sign saying: gone to -> …
• Move blurb to wiki
• Send blurb to okfn-volunteers
• Generate http://wiki.openliterature.net/Get_Involved/Tasks – IE to take on
  • Send that (or subitems) to okfn-volunteers

Bi-weekly meetings (once a (or every 2) month have a big meeting with a theme?)

• Biweekly meetings: every sunday at 3pm …
• Working group meeting: 15m general 30m on specific theme.
  • 1 a month. 5pm UK time.
  • http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Guide#Working_Group_Meetings

Future infrastructure – we have to sort it out …

• Move openshakespeare core to wordpress …
• Do we want to move to OpenLiterature.net. Yes!

PRESENT

JHS
IE

AGENDA

• Writing/Reviewing Panton Principles for Open Literature/Humanities (original text below – please add your thoughts)
• Re-write requires us to define our terms
  • Original data?
  • Lots more repetition in the humanities?
  • Authorship?
  • “Data is the record of any perceivable act performed in the sphere of the humanities” – shifts difficulty into * * ‘what are the humanities’
• Ref. Publishable in Panton principles?
• Replace data, word carries a very clear scientific sense – WORK: more understandable than data; declare breadth of meaning. would need to include notes and new work on top of this.

Notes

1 = “When publishing a work, an explicit and robust statement about the uses to which all elements of that work (including annotation, introduction, index, etc.) may be put.”
2 = “Use a recognized waiver or license that is appropriate for that work.”
3 = “If you want your work to be effectively used, adapted (remixed), and added to by others it should be open as defined by the Open Content Definition – in particular non-commercial and other restrictive clauses should not be used.” ( – make it into link to OpenDef pages)
4 = “Explicit dedication of annotations, editorial matter, etc. embedded in the published work to the public domain is strongly recommended and ensures compliance with the Open Content Definition.”
5 = “Explicit declaration of sources is strongly recommended, regardless of their copyright status, in order to foster a culture of both ‘attibute’ and ‘share-alike’.”

Workings

1 = “When publishing a work, an explicit and robust statement about the uses to which all elements of that work (including annotation, introduction, index, etc.) may be put.”
Define ‘work’ – intentionally large term
Focus on the published object
This statement should be precise, irrevocable, and based on an appropriate and recognized legal statement in the form of a waiver or license.

2 = “Use a recognized waiver or license that is appropriate for that work.”
Examples: CC, Free ARt (http://opendefinition.org/licenses/fal/) – invite people to add other examples…

3 = “If you want your work to be effectively used, adapted (remixed), and added to by others it should be open as defined by the Open Content Definition – in particular non-commercial and other restrictive clauses should not be used.”
( – make it into link to OpenDef pages)
The use of licenses which limit commercial re-use or limit the production of derivative works by excluding use for particular purposes or by specific persons or organizations is STRONGLY discouraged. These licenses make it impossible to effectively integrate and re-purpose datasets and prevent commercial activities that could be used to support data preservation.
vs. Enclosure of the public domain

4 = “Explicit dedication of annotations, editorial matter, etc. embedded in the published work to the public domain is strongly recommended and ensures compliance with the Open Content Definition.”
Public funding for public-funded art/humanities projects

5 = “Explicit declaration of sources is strongly recommended, regardless of their copyright status, in order to foster a culture of both ‘attibute’ and ‘share-alike’.”
Expand: culture of SA-BY creates stronger pressures for more openness

PRESENT

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