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One of the problems searching in these books is that there is no standardized spelling in early modern literature. There is a project called DREaM, at McGill t

One of the problems searching in these books is that there is no standardized spelling in early modern literature. There is a project called DREaM, at McGill to standardize for "distance reading" (macro analysis).[1] It uses a program called VARD (a text preprocessor trained to correct spelling).[2] Strangely, this application is licensed with the creative commons. I think this means that it is closed source. Does anyone know of any open source alternatives? It cannot handle such an immense amount of data,[3] [1] http://earlymodernconversions.com/introducing-dream/ http://earlymodernconversions.com/introducing-dream/ [2] http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/vard/about/ http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/vard/about/ [3] http://www.matthewmilner.name/2014/11/18/VARD-and-EEBO-TCP/ http://www.matthewmilner.name/2014/11/18/VARD-and-EEBO-TCP/

sp332 12y ago
There are lots of different CC licenses. None of them are closed-source, although there are some which don't allow modification (No-Derivs / ND). Others disallow copying for commercial use (NonCommercial / NC), and a couple allow almost anything (Attribution / BY, No Rights Reserved / CC0). https://creativecommons.org/choose/ https://creativecommons.org/choose/
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  > There are lots of different CC licenses. None of them are closed-source, although there are a few which don't allow modification. Licenses that don't allow modifications are closed-source. At least, they are inconsistent with the Open Source Definition (specifically, with criteria #3: "The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.") http://opensource.org/osd-annotated http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
  - sp332 12y ago
    Oh right, I was just thinking of open publication.
- idiotclock 12y ago
  I think that the distribution of VARD is allowed (if non-commerical), but editing the source code isn't. I think this because I cannot find the source for VARD. That's why I think it's strange it is licensed CC.
  - sp332 12y ago
    They're using BY-NC-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ so it is strange that they limit access. I wonder if there are two competing groups, or if the legal department got paranoid.

sp332 12y ago

There are lots of different CC licenses. None of them are closed-source, although there are some which don't allow modification (No-Derivs / ND). Others disallow copying for commercial use (NonCommercial / NC), and a couple allow almost anything (Attribution / BY, No Rights Reserved / CC0). https://creativecommons.org/choose/ https://creativecommons.org/choose/

dragonwriter 12y ago
> There are lots of different CC licenses. None of them are closed-source, although there are a few which don't allow modification. Licenses that don't allow modifications are closed-source. At least, they are inconsistent with the Open Source Definition (specifically, with criteria #3: "The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.") http://opensource.org/osd-annotated http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
- sp332 12y ago
  Oh right, I was just thinking of open publication.
idiotclock 12y ago
I think that the distribution of VARD is allowed (if non-commerical), but editing the source code isn't. I think this because I cannot find the source for VARD. That's why I think it's strange it is licensed CC.
- sp332 12y ago
  They're using BY-NC-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ so it is strange that they limit access. I wonder if there are two competing groups, or if the legal department got paranoid.