🚨🚨 NOTE (Summer 2021): This repository is an old, beta version of Open Syllabus that was online circa 2016, left here for posterity. The code here isn't what's powering the current Explorer or Galaxy websites. 🚨🚨

Open Syllabus Project

explorer.opensyllabusproject.org

^{A force-directed layout of the co-assignment network for the top ~10,000 texts.}

Welcome! The Open Syllabus Project is an effort to see what can be learned by analyzing the contents of a corpus of over 1 million college course syllabi. Here you'll find:

• The source code for the Open Syllabus Explorer web application.

• A set of generalized utilities for interacting with the corpus.

• Routines that extract information about citations, fields, institutions, and locations from the syllabi.

• A harness for parallelizing jobs across multiple EC2 instances. (It would take about a month to run the citation extraction job on your laptop!)

• Tools for analyzing the structure of the citation graph.

Head over to osp-deploy for a set of Ansible playbooks for deploying to Vagrant / EC2.

How do I get the data?

Drop us a line at syllabusopen@gmail.com. We're actively looking to develop research collaborations around this corpus, and would love to hear about what you're working on.