Open Source Shakespeare

Note: This article is attached to the BardMetrics project and was crafted as a wiki proof-of-concept, but also as a source of information pertinent to that initiative.

Open Source Shakespeare

Open Source Shakespeare (or OSS) is a free online web resource made available by George Mason University. It strengths are a robust concordance search funcationality of the entirety of Shakespeare’s canon made freely available to the public.

OSS has provided search statistics to the “BardMetrics” project.

Finding Aid Section

OSS Search Stats

Provided by: Open Source Shakespeare Publication Type: Digital database Date provided: December, 2013 Copyright or Usage Restrictions: Cite Item As:

An excel worksheet which contains a collections of graphs related to the usage of Open Source Shakespeare.

• Table of searches conducted by play; ordered from most to least frequently searched. Fields: Rank, number of searches, percentage of searches, title of work, genre of work • A bar graph depicting number of searches by work title. • A pie chart depicting percentage of searches by work title.

Sources

History of Open Source Shakespeare