[open-humanities] 18th-century texts online accessible

[Rufus Pollock]

On 26 April 2011 11:30, Janneke Adema <ademaj at uni.coventry.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> This is amazing news:
>
> 2000-odd 18th-century texts, formerly in databases, are now publicly accessible: http://ow.ly/4H0Ux
> Via 18th connect: www.18thconnect.org

This is indeed great news. Direct link for source project is here:
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ecco/description.html>

Anyone up for creating a <http://ckan.net/> entry for this new resource:

<http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ecco/description.html>

(Would be good as part of this to clarify the exact license terms and
whether these are fully open -- AFAICT you do at least need to request
the texts by email -- they are not yet posted online).

Rufus