Text Camp 2011

Aftermath

EVENT ARCHIVE

Details

• Where: JISC, Brettenham House (South Entrance), 9 Savoy Street, London, WC2E 7EG. Meet outside 'The Savoy Tup' Pub at 10am.
• NB: for security purposes, it is imperative to book your free ticket in advance
• When: Saturday 13th August 2011, 10am - 6pm
• Twitter: #tcamp11
• Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/2011/tcamp11/
• Book your place: http://textcamp2011.eventbrite.com
• To be run on the principles of Open Space Technology

Past Events

• Details of Text Camp 2010 are located here: http://textcamp.org/index.php/Main_Page

Proposed Activities

Tech

• What can we do with the TEI marked-up Eighteenth-century texts to celebrate: the 300th anniversaries of the Spectator, Pope’s Essay on Man, and/or David Hume’s birth?
• Scraping Gutenberg translations of Shakespeare for the Open Shakespeare project, creating a Gutenberg scraper (that cuts out the Gutenberg licences, etc.) for other online literary projects...
• Polishing the Open Milton code
• Using the annotator store API, curious example here (input as .txt).
• Exploit large scale text matching to add the sources (back) to news stories - from OKF ideas
• OCR the OED - from OKF ideas
• Trying out author-centric bibliographic data to create 'AuthorProfile' service - from OKF ideas

Publication

• Writing a guide to open content licences, along with stuff on the process of receiving edits on and building a community around a work. (perhaps using: this guide to publishing ebooks – cf. pp.160-1)
• Publishing critical editions using annotateit.org
• Alternative online publication models – cf. Bookhackers’ resources, especially [House of Stories http://bookhackers.com/pg/groups/156/the-house-of-stories/] and Luzme

Readers and Users

• Social networks and reading online: how could they be used to make the reading experience more immersive? - cf. Completely Novel,Guardian online reading group, and the discussion of this idea on Open Bookmarks
• How do universities use ebooks? What could improve their usage?
• How do you write a story that will only ever be published on the internet?
• TEI: how good is the ECCO release? Could we improve it with <particDescr> or does this create bias? How does it shape interpretation of a text?