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Open Resources for Celtic

Jack Leigh writes:

Ever searched in vain for an online text or translation? Wanted to make a correction to something you did find? Only found out about online resources after you managed without them? Open Resources for Celtic Studies is the beginnings of a project to provide an easily-accessible repository of open [1] information of use to Celticists. At the moment it?s somewhat lacking but you can help change that! Please take a look and, if you like the idea, do something to help out.

Things you could do include:

Contribute some translation or bibliography (you need to revise those set texts anyway!)
Post an article you?ve written
Post links to existing online resources you know
Pick a character and write about them (texts they appear in, etc.)
Any other idea you think would be useful!

I was fortunate to recently meet Lucy Chambers and Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation (which has brought us cool projects like Open Shakespeare, Public Domain Works, and Open Bibliography) and we discussed some of the ways to take this idea forward, perhaps through integrating it with work done for Open Shakespeare, into a wider ?Open Literature?.

Things I would currently like to see include: a comprehensive bibliography which links books and articles with their reviews, and allows users to add their own reviews; profiles of literary characters, texts they appear in and genealogical information; open transcriptions, critical editions and translations marked up using TEI XML. Anyone have grand ideas of their own? Please take a look and see what you can make of the resource.

[1] ?A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it ? subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.? (See http://www.opendefinition.org/, particularly the ?Open Knowledge Definition? for further explanation)

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