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

Thu Jan 1 17:16:50 UTC 2015

EEBO/TCP texts now available, including via Github:
https://github.com/textcreationpartnership

John


On 30/12/2014 23:09, James Cummings wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I don't want to pre-empt our more official announcement in the next day
> or so, which I'll make sure to send to this list, but all these texts
> will be released in a variety of forms.
>
> The total number is actually more than 25000 (even in the phase 1 CC0
> release from 1 Jan 2015). The TEI P5 XML is the modern 'source' that you
> should use for any future derivative projects: I would strongly
> recommend not starting from the TCP original SGML. (A lot of work has
> gone into this conversion to preserve intellectual content and
> intentions of the original encoders.) In addition to the TEI P5 XML, a
> basic HTML Web version of each text, EPUB version, and a link to
> ProQuest's EEBO images (but you institution needs to subscribe to that)
> will be available from the University of Oxford Text Archive. The
> 'source' link will go to a GitHub repository for each text. There are
> tools we will provide on github for those wishing to download all of the
> individual texts.
>
> Happy New Year.
>
> -James
>


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