diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 3d9478a0a..6c802b0b9 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ *.sh .DS_Store site/.build +scrap dumps/ diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7811aa832..77736d273 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,122 +1,16 @@ # Restore Poems Together -Thousands of poems in the public domain live buried in school libraries, archaic websites, journals gone out of print. We don't have a free, unified access. An open library. +Thousands of poems in the public domain live buried in school libraries, archaic websites, journals gone out of print. We don't have a free, unified access. A github library. Let's build one. -## Overview +## Rationale -Three parts: format, metadata, scripts. +See [Zenup](https://github.com/poetroid/zenup). -1. To restore poems, we need a new format that can be read by humans and machines alike. -2. To curate poems, we need a way to add metadata, inline, read by humans and machines. -3. Scripts provide researchers a way to analyze, find, view, and print poems. +## Status -### Poem format - -[Plain Text](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text) is still an excellent format supported by all editors by default: notepad, textedit, [iAWriter](http://www.iawriter.com/mac/), and others. Files must be saved in [UTF-8](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8) 'encoding'-- a setting available as options in the 'save as' file-dialog. Saving a file in UTF-8 is a necessary, important step to preserve foreign-language characters across machines. - -``` -Every time I say "joy," joyous thing, -you will know that I am talking about you, -for you are the joy of all joyous beauty -and the joy of all joyous and beautiful pleasures, -``` - -### Metadata - -The current format for metdata is [YAML](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML), a humanly readable format. This format may change to [edn](https://github.com/edn-format/edn), and old poems will be upgraded, automatically. - -Metadata will be curated *inline*, above the poem, for storing metadata and tags, to inform humans and machines of semantic data for further analysis. - -``` ---- -title: Untitled -type: Sonnet -author: Guitton D'Arezzo -curator: Ata Moharreri -period: 1230-1294 -country: Italy -tags: -- joy -- happiness ---- -``` - -Note the `---` before and after the metadata. - -Filenames are saved as `last-name-title-first-five-words-of-poem.txt` - -Poems, metadata, and all the revisions are protected in (git)hub, for free, forever. - -**Complete Example** - -``` ---- -author: Walt Whitman -gender: male -title: from I Sing the Body Electric -curator: Ata -year: 19th century -country: America -tags: - - body - - women - - art - - love - - life - - soul - - meditative - - family - - beauty - - nature - - feminine - - narrative ---- - -This is the female form, -A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot, -It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction, -I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, -all falls aside but myself and it, -Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what -was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, -Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable, -Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all diffused, mine too diffused, -Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching, -Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious nice, -Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn, -Undulating into the willing and yielding day, -Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh'd day. - -This the nucleus—after the child is born of woman, man is born of woman, -This the bath of birth, this the merge of small and large, and the outlet again. - -Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest, -You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul. - -The female contains all qualities and tempers them, -She is in her place and moves with perfect balance, -She is all things duly veil'd, she is both passive and active, -She is to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as daughters. - -As I see my soul reflected in Nature, -As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty, -See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see. - -``` - -### Scripts - -This library will include python scripts to help scholars, students, educators, and publishers research poetry, from the comfort of their pc, mac, or browser. - -## Status and Roadmap - -Currently, ~2000 poems are hand-curated by editors at Facjure. - -Soon, scrappers will extract ~50000 poems. - -For a webapp to search and view existing poems, visit [poetroid](https://github.com/Facjure/poetroid), an open platform to discover poetry together. +Poetroid LLC has restored 50,000 poems so far. The script were started in Python, and are now ad-hoc. ## Resources @@ -125,18 +19,12 @@ For a webapp to search and view existing poems, visit [poetroid](https://github. ## Contributers -- Priyatam Mudivarti: fiction writer, engineer, and founder of [Facjure LLC](http://www.facjure.com) -- Ata Moharreri: poet, professor, and former managing editor of [The Massachusetts Review](http://www.massreview.org/editors) -- Sreeharsha Mudivarti: musician, engineer, and survivor of a space ship crash. - -If you're a developer, [fork](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo), add new poems, then send a [pull](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests) request. - -If you're a scholar, student, or publisher interested in curating poetry, request access by sending an email to priyatam@facjure.com. We'll help you get up and running. +- Priyatam Mudivarti +- Ata Moharreri (poeta and teacher) +- Sreeharsha Mudivarti, musician ## Copyright & License Copyright (c) Facjure LLC. All rights reserved. -The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the opensource [Eclipse Plugin License v 1.0]((http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php)), which can be found in the file LICENSE at the root of this distribution. - -By using this software in any fashion, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this license. You must not remove this notice, or any other, from this software. +Distributed under the MIT License. diff --git a/poems/poems b/poems/poems deleted file mode 100644 index d4e115b91..000000000 --- a/poems/poems +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ ---- -author: A. H. Laidlaw -title: Bird Of The Summering North. ---- - -Bird of the summering North, -Whither away? -Fly you so gaily forth -Simply to stay -Nested in northern bowers -Till the late flushing flowers -Turn in October hours -Ashen and gray? - -Bear, then, this message, Dove, -When you depart, -Safe to my northern Love, -Quick! Like a dart! -Bill her and coo her this -Seal of triumphant bliss, -One young, immortal kiss, -Hot from my heart. - -Then, in the autumn time, -Tailing the pole, -From my Love's cooling clime -Make me your goal; -Flash to this field of Fame, -Linked with her darling name, -All her concordant flame, -Deep from her soul.