The following post is by Sam Leon, Community Co-ordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
We’re delighted to announce that JISC will be funding the initial development of the TEXTUS platform as part of its Digital Infrastructure Programme.
TEXTUS will be a lightweight, easy-to-use platform that will enable users to read, share and collaborate around public domain texts. It will use tools already developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation such as the Annotator and build on the OKFN humanities projects such as Open Shakespeare.
Goldsmiths University will lead the project with technical development and community work to be undertaken by the Open Knowledge Foundation.
Open Philosophy
The six-month JISC funded project will focus on developing a first instance of TEXTUS to be deployed as Open Philosophy on openphilosophy.org. Open Philosophy – which will focus on providing access to and encouraging scholarly collaboration around philosophy texts – will be developed in close consultation with the project’s academic advisory board, students from Goldsmiths University and project partners Oxford and Royal Holloway.
It is one of the main goals of the project to develop a tool that can be used by students and scholars to enrich their teaching and research, so user-centric design principles will be followed throughout to ensure that real researcher needs are addressed appropriately. There is a dedicated Open Philosophy mailing list that will focus on discussions about the content to be made available on openphilosophy.org which you can sign up to here.
Get Involved
Those interested in getting involved should contact sam.leon [at] okfn.org or send us a message on twitter @TEXTUSProject check out the TEXTUS Project website.
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Sam is a data trainer and wrangler at Open Knowledge. He Tweets from @Noel_Mas
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