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Improvements to the Concordance

Posted on January 3, 2007 by admin

One of the main items scheduled for v0.4 of open shakespeare is improvements to the responsiveness of the concordance. Using the v0.3 codebase, using just the sonnets as test material, loading up the list of words for the concordance alone … Continue reading →

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Adding Web-Based Annotation Support

Posted on December 18, 2006 by admin

We intend to add annotation/commentarysupport to the open shakespeare web demo either in this release or next. As a first step we’ve been looking to see what (open-source) web-based annotation systems are already out there. Below is our list of … Continue reading →

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Switch from Kid to Genshi for templating in the Web Interface

Posted on November 4, 2006 by admin

Today we made the switch from kid to genshi as our templating toolkit in the web interface. Kid has served us well but there are some issues with debugging and including input that can’t be guaranteed to be well-formed. Genshi, … Continue reading →

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Does an ‘open’ scan of a shakespeare folio exist?

Posted on October 15, 2006 by admin

We’d really like to have some nice images of a shakespeare first folio (if possible from Hamlet) for use in the Open Shakespeare project. However all the scanned copies we’ve managed to find seem to be under full ‘all rights … Continue reading →

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v0.3 of Open Shakespeare Released

Posted on October 4, 2006 by admin

A new version (0.3) of open shakespeare is out. Get it via the code page: http://www.openshakespeare.org/code/ Changelog Can now view mutiple texts side by side (ticket:15). See it in action at: http://demo.openshakespeare.org/view?name=othello_gut_f+othello_gut Now include moby/bosak versions of shakespeare as well … Continue reading →

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Open Shakespeare v0.2

Posted on July 15, 2006 by admin

With a little bit of free time over the last couple of weeks I’ve managed to do some more work on open shakespeare. The new version (v0.2dev) is up and running on the site: http://demo.openshakespeare.org/ http://demo.openshakespeare.org/concordance/ NB: concordance only includes … Continue reading →

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