Thanks for the smiley, Jonathan.
I'd be very interested in writing such a post but first I'd like to try
to finish some tools to start using the data which have been left in a
bit of a state.
Hamann sounds interesting. You've just hit on the big issure for the
project which (I think) I was talking to Jo Walsh about at Dev8d. There
is an XML format which the software reads and will put into the database
(I probably need to actually document it but it is not difficult). The
question is the parsing of the data. Currently the parsing is very much
aimed towards the Dickens letters and are in need of an overhaul which I
was planning on doing as an ongoing project after the next set of
smaller bug fixes to the XML / JSON.
That rather large caveat aside, I'd be interested in working with you on
the Hamann collection if you'd like so that it can made more useful and
general.
Look forward to reading the blog post about Open Philosophy.
As I'm in between jobs this week, I'm around on Skype if it would be
easier to chat. Thursday and Saturday are out at the moment but free at
other times when ever is good for you.
Best,
Iain
On 07/03/2011 09:23, Jonathan Gray wrote:
This is great Iain! Fantastic to see this progressing.
Would you be prepared to write a short blog post to this effect for
humanities.okfn.org - summarising what it is you're doing, and why it
might be useful to people?
Also I am about to start looking into putting some of Johann Georg
Hamann's correspondence online [1], with a view to doing some
collaborative translation, and (much needed!) annotation. I wonder
whether we could say something about the instances in which the Open
Correspondence software might be able to yield interesting results?
E.g. would it be interesting to see this for the correspondence I
have? If so, what data do I need in what form? Will blog about the
project (and the broader 'Open Philosophy' umbrella) soon...
All the best,
Jonathan
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Hamann
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:12 PM, print.crimes
<[email protected]> wrote:
Evening,
Apologies for cross-posting.
I've just updated the Open Correspondence site with some additions.
* additional fields in the RDF endpoint. I still need to do some major work
to JSON and XML which I hope to do for the next update.
* a basic text search
* a basic set of geographic data in the collection
* better linking from the letters to the correspondent and geographical data
(NB it is still incomplete)
* some mapping with Open Layers javascript.
* a Simile timeline (which is a bit slow at the moment).
Following a conversation regarding APIs on Open Shakespeare, I'm starting
work on an API for mining the letters for some data. It might also show any
other areas which need work. I think that this is also going to involve
checking the site against the Pedantic Web suggestions and working on some
of those.
Is there an open bibliographic service which can be queried to get better
book publication data for nineteenth century publications? Alternatively is
there a data set where I can start creating one for present and possible
future needs?
I'd be grateful for any comments, suggestions or wishes for the site either
on list or directly back to this mail.
Thanks,
Iain
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