For the 2015 edition of the NYPL Open Book Hackathon, I participated with a team that was interested in pulling poetry out of Project Gutenberg and creating a user dialogue with a goal toward creating a custom book of poems, based on user preferences. We started out calling it “Pandora for Poetry,” but settled on Musapaedia to avoid obvious copyright issues.
Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Musapaedia.pdf
With Musapaedia:
User can (possibilities)
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Upload/enter a poem and get a set of poems in custom e-book or web“experience”
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Choose a set of attributes and get a set of poems in custom e-book or web“experience”
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Use up/down vote system to determine what kinds of poems that come up
User Experience:
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Poem “mood”, color/image changes with type of poem
Since this year’s edition of the hackathon was one day as opposed to two, we had much less time to complete the project than previous years, but we were able to create a sample user interface and code the processes that extract the poems. Our team will continue to work on this and hopefully release a working application soon.
Final code we completed today is on GitHub!
https://github.com/rossgoodwin/musapaedia
Team:
Ross Goodwin Ross.goodwin@gmail.com
Noreen Whysel nwhysel@gmail.com
Vimala Pasupathi vcpasupathi@gmail.com
Clarisa Diaz clarisadiaz@gmail.com
Rike Franklin rikefranklin@gmail.com
Beth Dufford emdufford@gmail
Stephen Klein stepheniklein@gmail.com