ENEX Evernote Interface for Sefaria Texts

[DSarna]

Evernote is a popular cloud based repository with very powerful search capabilities. ENEX is a form of XML. Evernote uses ENEX as an import/export tool. Converting a Sefaria database to ENEX and then importing the result as an Evernote notebook would offer many benefits. Evernote notebooks can also be shared and made public. I am looking for partners interested in working with me to make this happen. I would like to see all Sefaria texts converted to ENEX and made into public notebooks, starting with the Bavli. Please respond if you have an interest in this project.

[blockspeiser]

Interesting idea. I will make a first pass at our (long overdue) text export options. Hopefully I can get this started in a way that anyone else can plugin to for different output formats.

[DSarna]

Fantastic.

On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, blockspeiser notifications@github.com wrote:

Interesting idea. I will make a first pass at our (long overdue) text export options. Hopefully I can get this started in a way that anyone else can plugin to for different output formats.

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[blockspeiser]

I've just made a first pass at some simpler export formats for all the texts in the Sefaria Database. I've started with a JSON format akin to what Sefaria uses internally and one plain text format, which you can now see here: https://github.com/blockspeiser/Sefaria-Data/tree/master/json https://github.com/blockspeiser/Sefaria-Data/tree/master/txt

If anyone is interested in having other formats (such as ENEX), you can write a python function to take a document (which looks just like the JSON above) and returns the text to output. See here: https://github.com/blockspeiser/Sefaria-Project/blob/master/sefaria/export.py#L33

There's plenty more to do here. I've listed some known issues below, but hopefully this will be helpful to some as is.

Known Issues:

• There's no revision history included -- often times we have a text that was originally copied from e.g., WikiSource, but has been significantly edited since. That isn't clear form these files alone.
• There is no merging of different text versions. Sometimes fragments of texts are accidentally saved as distinct versions, which can make it tricky to get access to the full text.
• There's no good way to see how complete or fragmentary a text is.
• Plaintext output should have some formatting options that depend on the text -- e.g, Mishna may want to have extra line breaks between mishnayot, but tanach may want to run each verse together.