Monthly Archives: February 2010

Digitising books and mumblings on open literature

Robert McCrum, an associate editor of the Observer, has this remarkably sane blog post regarding the nature of digitisation and Google Books. Perhaps it is only my interpreation but it does seem to be a slight volte face on his part, as I’ve always interpreted his stance as slightly anti-digitised books. Having read Adrian Johns’ […]

February 14, 2010 – 11:30 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in Open Knowledge | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Varsity article on Open Shakespeare

I’ve just come across this Varsity article on the Open Shakespeare project which the Open Knowledge Foundation run (and I did a bit of porting of for Open Milton). I got involved in other things like the Dickens project and sidetracked that way but the original project has received a second wind.

February 12, 2010 – 7:55 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in Open Knowledge | Comments (0)