TEXTUS is a collaboration between the Open Knowledge Foundation and Goldsmiths University funded by JISC to build an open-source platform for accessing and collaborating around public domain texts. It brings together thousands of electronic public domain texts currently scattered across different sites and adds high quality metadata and collaboration tools. The platform will allow users to seamlessly read texts, annotate sections, search across texts and annotations, and cite electronic editions.

1. A collaboration between the Open
Knowledge Foundation and
Goldsmiths University funded by JISC
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2. What is TEXTUS?
TEXTUS is the evolution of many years of work
at the Open Knowledge Foundation dedicated to
building open-source platforms for accessing
and collaborating around public domain texts in
the humanities. It builds on projects such as
http://openshakespeare.org.
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3. Why TEXTUS?
• There are thousands of scattered electronic
public domain texts online in places like
Wikisource, Internet Archive and Project
Gutenberg – they need to be brought together
• Existing platforms for accessing these texts do not
store high quality metadata that is useful for
scholarly research
• Most of the existing online public domain portals
do not support user interaction and collaboration
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4. OpenPhilosophy.org will be
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5. On OpenPhilosophy.org you
will be able to…
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6. Read…
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7. Read…
• Seamless reading experience
• Skip to sections you want through hyperlinked
tables of contents
• Display where you are in text
• Allow you to bring up original scans
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8. Annotate…
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9. Annotate…
• Basic annotation
• Link sections to other parts of text or other
resources
• Translate sections using annotation
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10. Search…
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11. Search…
• For an author
• For a text
• For a specific edition
• For a given term across a collection of
texts
• For a given term across a set of
annotations
• For particular kinds of annotation
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12. TEXTUS will enable you to…
• Reliably cite electronic editions of texts
using URLs – allowing you choose the
format of your reference
• Upload texts
• Export your own annotated editions of
texts
• Create your own bibliographies and
reading lists with links to freely available
copies of those works
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13. TEXTUS will allow you to do all these things
and deliver them through a beautiful and
simple interface.
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14. What will OpenPhilosophy.org
look like?
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15. Front page
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16. Text view
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17. Author View
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18. List View
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19. Get Involved!
Are you a student or scholar working in the
humanities?
Test drive the BETA version, help us find interesting
public domain resources online
Are you a developer?
Fork the code on GitHub, join the developer
discussion, write import scripts
Neither or these but still interested?
Introduce yourself on the Open Humanities
Discussion List and join the conversation!
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20. Key Links
• Blog: http://textusproject.org/blog
• Discussion list sign up:
http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-
humanities
• Developer discussion
list:http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/humanities-
dev
• Get stuck into the code:
https://github.com/okfn/textus
• Tweet: @TEXTUSproject
• Email: sam.leon@okfn.org
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