Text Creation Partnership

Call for Papers: “Early Modern Texts: Digital Methods and Methodologies”

by rebecca February 28, 2013

The Text Creation Partnership is delighted to once again be hosting a conference September 16-17, 2013, at the University of Oxford. We are currently seeking submissions related to this year’s theme, “Early Modern Texts: Digital Methods and Methodologies.” From the conference website: The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, based at the Bodleian Library ...

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EEBO-TCP Update at ALA Annual

by rebecca May 30, 2012

It has been several years since the Text Creation Partnership has held an update at the American Library Association’s Annual Meeting, and we look forward to reviving the tradition this June. If you will be in Anaheim, we hope you will join us for an afternoon reception, as we celebrate reaching the milestone of 40,000 ...

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CFP: “Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies”? The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012

by rebecca April 17, 2012

We’re excited to announce that we are seeking proposals for a conference about EEBO-TCP to be held at the University of Oxford September 17-18, 2012. The call for proposals follows, and may also be downloaded as a PDF.

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“Shakespeare’s Sisters” at the Folger Library—and in EEBO-TCP

by rebecca March 27, 2012

Through May 20, 2012, the Folger Shakespeare Library is featuring a special exhibit called Shakespeare’s Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700. According to its website, the exhibit:

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Will you TCP My Valentine?

by rebecca February 14, 2012

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we bring you a smattering of poetry, puzzles, and song for sweethearts! One of my favorites is a poem printed on a wreath of heart-shaped knots, from Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : ...

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At Last: Our Publicly Accessible Portal to Search, Browse, and Read ECCO-TCP

by rebecca January 23, 2012

In April 2011, we announced that restrictions had been lifted from around 2,200 TCP texts from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Within hours, we heard from many folks who were frustrated that our announcement didn’t seem to have any teeth: Although we could (and did!) distribute the raw encoded text files to anyone who asked, ...

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Report from the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

by rebecca November 30, 2011

How does an invisible system shape the experience of an end user? I found myself pondering this question again and again throughout the 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, which took place November 20-21. This event is jointly sponsored each year by Northwestern University, Loyola University, University of Chicago, and the Illinois Institute of ...

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MPublishing Says Farewell to Ari Friedlander and Greg Grossmeier

by Shana July 28, 2011

Ari Friedlander, who has been Outreach Coordinator for the Text Creation Partnership since July 2010, has accepted the position of Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. For the last year, Ari has served as the face of the TCP, representing our work to current and future partners, writing press ...

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Our thoughts on “Crowdsourcing and Variant Digital Editions —some troubles ahead”

by rebecca July 21, 2011

On July 18, the JISC Digitisation Programme published a thought-provoking blog post about the growing number of platforms and portals through which users can access (and potentially edit) digital resources, such as those produced by the TCP. The post asks, If there are multiple versions of the original content, then which one is the one ...

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Michael Ullyot on Encoding (and) Interpretation

by arifried June 14, 2011

I had the opportunity to meet Michael Ullyot, assistant professor of English at the University of Calgary, last week when we both attended the annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. While I spent the week trying to wrap my head around data analysis, Michael was diving in to the fundamentals ...

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