[open-humanities] 25,000 early modern texts to be released CC0

Tue Dec 30 12:45:28 UTC 2014

On 30/12/2014 11:45, Andrea Zanni wrote:
> Wow, cool!
> It will be possible to download all texts + metadata? There is an API
> for the website?
>

Don't know about APIs, but the notice linked does state that the whole 
lot will be available from box.com.

John

> Andrea
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:28 AM, John Levin <john at anterotesis.com
> <mailto:john at anterotesis.com>> wrote:
>
>     Notice from the Text Creation partnership:
>     http://www.__textcreationpartnership.org/__2014/12/24/eebo-tcp-phase-i-__public-release-what-to-expect-__on-january-1/
>     <http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/2014/12/24/eebo-tcp-phase-i-public-release-what-to-expect-on-january-1/>
>     Texts to be released on January 1st.
>
>     I think these are the same as the ones I uploaded ages ago to CKAN
>     (can't find URL right now), but with full xml markup.
>
>     Uses? Not sure, and I don't have the time to do anything with them.
>     Perhaps they could be treated a la Project Gitenberg?
>
>     Happy new year!
>
>     John

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