[open-humanities] Fwd: release of EEBO Phase 1 texts

Thu Jan 1 00:06:14 UTC 2015

FYI

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Subject: release of EEBO Phase 1 texts
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:27 +0000

Many readers of this list will be aware that the first tranche 
(c.25k) of transcribed and marked-up books from the Text Creation 
Partnership's Early English Books Online (EEBO) collection goes 
into the public domain today.

You can read all about TCP and EEBO at 
http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/tcp-eebo/ and 
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eebotcp/

The University of Oxford is now making this collection, together 
with Gale Cengage's Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), 
and Readex's Evans Early American Imprints, available in various 
formats (TEI P5 XML, HTML and ePub) initially via the University 
of Oxford Text Archive at http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/, and 
offering the source XML for community collaborative editing via 
Github. For the convenience of UK universities who subscribe to 
JISC Historic Books, a link to page images is also provided. We 
hope that the XML will serve as the base for enhancements and 
corrections.

This catalogue also lists EEBO Phase 2 texts, but the HTML and 
ePub versions of these can only be accessed by members of the 
University of Oxford.

[Technical note]
Those interested in working on the TEI P5 XML versions of the 
texts can check them out of Github, via 
https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/, where each of the 
texts is in its own repository (eg 
https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A00021).  There is a 
CSV file listing all the texts at 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/Texts/master/TCP.csv, 
and a simple Linux/OSX shell script to clone all 32853 
unrestricted repositories at 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/Texts/master/cloneall.sh 