Help wanted for translating Gutenberg texts into XML
Frank Boumphrey of the HTML
Writers Guild (HWG) has announced an
initiative to translate Project Gutenberg texts into
XML.
Project Gutenberg is an organization dedicated to
recording literature in ASCII text, with almost 10,000
volumes currently marked up. The initiative to translate
these ASCII texts into XML bas been dubbed "Gutenberg at
HWG".
In his announcement, Boumphrey requests help from the XML
community, particularly in the development of DTDs. Around
30 books have already been converted, with another
50 in progress.
Interested parties are invited to mail Frank Boumphrey at
frank@hwg.org with the
subject "xml-dev/gutenberg".
Re: Help wanted for translating Gutenberg texts into XML (Pierre Johnson - 07:16, 23 Jan 2002) Why doesn't someone write a XML parser that takes all of the Gutenberg ASCII files and markup these files? I would think a coding wizard could write something like this in Python quickly enough. Let the machines do the work! |