zed9 / textus

A toolbox and web application for working with and presenting textual material from Shakespeare to Schopenhauer, and letters to literature.

Textus is an open-source platform for presenting and working with cultural and historical texts.

As of March 2013 Textus is undergoing a substantial refactor into smaller components. Please see the website for details.

Textus represents the evolution of more than 6 years of software development, building as it does on the OpenShakspeare platform (which powered http://openshakespeare.org from 2005 until 2011) and the OpenCorrespondence system (which powered http://opencorrespondence.org since 2009).

Quick getting started guide, this is the version on beta.openphilosophy.org

• Install Node.js and NPM (Node Package Manager) and ElasticSearch
• Configure and run an ElasticSearch server, making note of the connection protocol, port and host.
• In a shell:
  • git clone git://github.com/okfn/textus.git
  • cd textus
  • npm install
  • node src/server.js --help
• Call 'node src/server.js' with appropriate options (see the message returned from the help option)
• Point your web browser at localhost on whatever port you've configured for Textus (defaults to 8080 if not specified).

Copyright and License

Copyright 2011-2013 Open Knowledge Foundation

Licensed under the MIT License:

A copy of the license can be found in the LICENSE file