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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).

Components

The Textus Platform is now being refactored composed of 4 separate components:

  • Textus Formatter - this tool converts standard text formats to the Textus format
  • Textus Viewer - this is a pure Javascript + HTML app that displays a text in Textus Format
  • Textus Wordpress - a plugin that uses the other Textus tools to turn Wordpress into a platform for hosting, presenting and collaborating on cultural texts
  • Textus API - create an API for texts in Textus format

Note these components are under active development as of December 2013.

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

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