Instead of just providing the texts, why doesn't Yahoo or Google go in-depth with a collection of texts, and provide insights on them?
Open Source Shakespeare is an example of what I mean. There's an automatically-generated concordance, you can look at all of a character's lines at once, and see statistics about the plays, etc.
Those are actual research tools. Being able to search a text is useful, but you could do that in 1975. I would be more impressed if these big search companies figured out how to do something more useful.
Bah. Posting HTML is so 1996. You can do so much more with these texts. One example is Open Source Shakespeare, which takes all of Shakespeare's texts, indexes them, presents them in an attractive manner, creates a concordance, provides a full-text search engine, organizes the lines by character, etc.
All of the texts are open source, and you can download the database and source code from the site, too. Check it out.
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what about the san Andreas fault going off and makeing CA split off from the rest of the usa?
I'm in favor of this scenario. In fact, I don't even think we should wait for the San Andreas fault to make its move.
Instead of just providing the texts, why doesn't Yahoo or Google go in-depth with a collection of texts, and provide insights on them? Open Source Shakespeare is an example of what I mean. There's an automatically-generated concordance, you can look at all of a character's lines at once, and see statistics about the plays, etc. Those are actual research tools. Being able to search a text is useful, but you could do that in 1975. I would be more impressed if these big search companies figured out how to do something more useful.
Bah. Posting HTML is so 1996. You can do so much more with these texts. One example is Open Source Shakespeare, which takes all of Shakespeare's texts, indexes them, presents them in an attractive manner, creates a concordance, provides a full-text search engine, organizes the lines by character, etc.
All of the texts are open source, and you can download the database and source code from the site, too. Check it out.