Open Shakespeare: A New Way of Reading
This short talk will look at the use of the annotation tool within Open Shakespeare, and the way it serves the needs of a wide range of readers, be they students, schoolchildren, academics, or amateurs. It will examine some of the ways in which the tool changes the way we read literature online, and conclude with some thoughts on the future of the annotator, particularly as regards crowd-sourcing and social media.
by James Harriman-Smith on July 1st at 19:00 in Track II
James Harriman-Smith is the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he has just completed an MPhil on the reception of Shakespeare in the early eighteenth century. He is a past winner of the Harness Shakespeare Essay Prize, and will be spending next year teaching English at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. He has been part of Open Shakespeare since 2009.
Rufus Pollock
Daniel Dietrich
Jason Kitcat
Sebastian Hellmann
Lucy Chambers
Hauke Gierow
[...] especially the annotator, is currently underway, the conclusions of which will soon be presented at OKCON 2011, and – if all goes well – in journal format also. One recommendation will be to [...]