Let’s Make OpenPhilosophy.org! | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

“A little while ago I posted some ideas for a project called OpenPhilosophy.org, which would enable users to transcribe, translate, annotate and create collections of philosophical texts which have entered the public domain. As was announced last week on this blog, the project has secured some funding from JISC, who champion digital technology for use in higher education in the UK. The project will be a collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, the University of Oxford and the Open Knowledge Foundation. It will also involve students and staff at other institutions in the UK and further afield. The project will develop an open source platform called TEXTUS, which will enable users to create, manage and interact with collections of texts. TEXTUS will power OpenPhilosophy.org. The platform will be developed with input from students and staff who will be using OpenPhilosophy.org in their teaching and research. It will have a strong emphasis on creating something beautiful, simple, intuitive and user-centric.It will benefit from the wisdom of a distinguished Advisory Board of philosophy professors and digital humanities experts [see the blog post for a list of board members]... In the first phase of the project we will be developing a prototype of the TEXTUS platform, and sourcing and selecting public domain philosophical texts to include in OpenPhilosophy.org. If you’d like to be kept in the loop on the development of OpenPhilosophy.org, you can request an invite to test the project when it is ready. If you’d like to come and help out, you are warmly invited to join us on the public open-philosophy

Link:

http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/10/lets-make-openphilosophy-org/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

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Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 18:52

Date published:

03/20/2012, 16:02