Open Shakespeare

v0.3 of Open Shakespeare Released

October 4th, 2006

A new version (0.3) of open shakespeare is out. Get it via the code page:

http://www.openshakespeare.org/code/

Changelog

1. Can now view mutiple texts side by side (ticket:15). See it in action at:

   http://demo.openshakespeare.org/view?name=othello_gut_f+othello_gut

2. Now include moby/bosak versions of shakespeare as well as gutenberg (ticket:10) (though more work remains to be done to process these versions to plaintext and html)

3. Fix bug whereby we were missing some of the available gutenberg texts (ticket:18)

4. Install the shakespeare python package (ticket:16)

5. Move to py.test from unittest

6. New project website at http://www.openshakespeare.org/

Outstanding Issues

1. Several of the source texts (all of them Gutenberg folios) seem to break the viewer due to kid (the templating system) complaining about about ‘not well-formed (invalid token) xml’. Any help in tracking this down would be greatly appreciated.

About Open Shakespeare

A full open set of Shakespeare’s works along with anciallary material, a variety of tools and a python API.

For more information see the about page: http://www.openshakespeare.org/about/

Mailing list: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss/

Entry Filed under: News