Open Shakespeare

British Library, 2011-02-24

Rufus Pollock and James Harriman-Smith

[Open Knowledge Foundation]
[Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow]
Licensed under cc-by v3.0 (any jurisdiction)

About the Foundation

Founded 2004 / Not-for-profit

Promoting, Creating Disseminating Open Knowledge

http://www.okfn.org/vision/

An Observation (or Two)

Information is Special: Non-Rivalrous

Very cheaply copied ~ zero cost

Giving me a 'copy' of your car is a problem, giving me a copy of your data isn't

And Collaboration Works Best
with
Open Information

OpenDefinition.org

A Different Way of Scholarship is Possible!

Open Shakespeare

The Dream

A Unified Corpus
Open To All
For Reading, Interlinking, Annotating, Anthologizing ...

Given Technologies We Have
Why Isn't Every (PD) Text
Online to Interlink, Annotate, Copy, Share and Anthologize?

Thank-You

Rufus Pollock
rufus.pollock [at] okfn [dot] org

http://okfn.org/ http://openshakespeare.org/