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 of text encoding, and eager to get his hands on some EEBO-TCP texts and start experimenting! He’s written a really…
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Yesterday, the Text Creation Partnership, a division of MPublishing, announced the opening to the public of 2,231 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Produced by Gale, part of Cengage Learning, ECCO is an important research database that includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. The 2,231 keyed texts were produced in collaboration…
Huston Diehl, Professor of English and CLAS Collegiate Fellow at the University of Iowa, passed away earlier this week at the age of 61. In addition to being an acclaimed critic of early modern English drama and culture, Professor Diehl was a friend of the Text Creation Partnership, graciously donating two undergraduate assignments for publication […]
The wonderful English Broadside Ballad Archive has been written up in Jennifer Howard’s “Archive Watch,” a feature of The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s “Wired Campus” blog. She says it’s a cool archive for a hot summer day, and we couldn’t agree more. Though we would like to point out that archival fun is appropriate to […]