^{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.

Unfortunately, we're unable publish the raw syllabi for copyright reasons. But, if you're interested in contributing to the project or working with the corpus, 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.