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Our Heritage, Our Stories is opening up the wealth of existing community-generated digital conten... more Our Heritage, Our Stories is opening up the wealth of existing community-generated digital content (CGDC) across the UK using innovative automated approaches. This work is drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of researchers in archives, computer science, history, and linguistics from the University of Glasgow, University of Manchester, and The National Archives (TNA). The project will develop an automated pipeline for the processing and enrichment of CGDC, showcase this newly enhanced and connected CGDC in a public-facing Observatory, and develop a post-custodial model of best practice for the creation and management of CGDC.
The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) ran from 1999 as an innovativ... more The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) ran from 1999 as an innovative collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Michigan, funded by Jisc in the UK and by over 150 academic partner institutions worldwide. Its aim was to capture the earliest extant edition of every English-language work published during the first two centuries of printing in England, and to convert this material into fully-searchable texts. The EEBO-TCP corpus covers the period from 1473 to 1700 and is estimated to comprise more than two million pages and nearly a billion words. It represents a history of the printed word in England from the birth of the printing press to the reign of William and Mary, and it contains texts of incomparable significance for research across all academic disciplines, including literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science. Having previously been available only to academic institutions ...
Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material inf... more Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible.
This poster examines the technical background to the Stationers’ Register Online (SRO) project ba... more This poster examines the technical background to the Stationers’ Register Online (SRO) project based at the University of Oxford. The pilot SRO project received institutional funding from the Lyell Research Fund to transcribe Arber’s and Eyre and Rivington’s editions of the book-entry Register of the Stationers’ Company, (1554 to 1640, and 1640 to 1708). The Stationers’ Register is arguably the most important primary source for the study of the history of the book in Britain other than the books themselves. The Register was the primary means through which ownership of texts was asserted, disputed, regulated and monitored from c.1577 until 1924, and survives intact in two series now held in Stationers’ Hall and at the National Archives. As part of the preparation for the digitisation of the earliest volumes of the Register by a keying company, the project created a byte-reduced encoding schema for concise digitization without loss of intellectual content. The motivating factor for th...
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