{"id":6307,"date":"2012-12-07T08:24:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2012-12-07T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:24:53","slug":"macbeth-goes-digital-folger-shakespeare-library-launches-digital-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2012\/12\/07\/macbeth-goes-digital-folger-shakespeare-library-launches-digital-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Macbeth Goes Digital: Folger Shakespeare Library Launches Digital Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Thursday, the Folger Shakespeare Library launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folgerdigitaltexts.org\/?chapter=0\" target=\"_blank\">Folger Digital Texts<\/a>, a platform with easily searchable digital editions of 12 of the Bard\u2019s best-known plays. While Shakespeare\u2019s work has been in the public domain for the past few centuries, The Folger Library, according to a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.folger.edu\/pr_preview.cfm?prid=313&amp;is_archived=0\" target=\"_blank\"> press release<\/a>, hopes that this digitization will \u201csignificantly advance digital humanities research into the works of Shakespeare and other writers of his time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Folger\u2019s new platform allows users to download both PDFs of the plays and the source code of the texts. The goal here, like that of other new programs such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijksmuseum.nl\/en\/rijksstudio\" target=\"_blank\">Rijksstudio<\/a>, is to allow users to reuse and remix content for new creative projects. That\u2019s something artists, filmmakers, and 10<sup>th<\/sup> graders forced into class-wide productions of <em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream <\/em>have been doing for a very, very long time. But there\u2019s no arguing that a comprehensive digital version complete with code will make class-projects and artistic endeavors alike that much easier to create.<\/p>\n<p>I had a chance to play around with a few of the texts, and several of the features frankly make me jealous that my research doesn\u2019t involve Shakespeare &#8212; a command f style search bar that presents all uses of a given word within each of the texts, an act \/ scene \/ line finder, and character and plot synopses. Although there are currently only a dozen plays on the site, the Folger plans to include all of Shakespeare\u2019s plays and poems by the end of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>As my English major roommate put it, \u201cthis will make writing papers ten times more awesome!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ell-r-brown\/4039926230\/\" target=\"_blank\">ell brown<\/a>\u00a0on Flickr; used under a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>\u00a0license.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Folger Shakespeare Library launches a new digital platform with digital texts and source code for 12 of the Bard&#8217;s best known plays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5325,"featured_media":6309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/files\/2012\/12\/Shakespeare.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6315,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}