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

[jtan]

Happy New Year

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:08 AM, James Cummings <James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

>
> Yes, or see the email I sent at 6 minutes past midnight with even more
> details.  You can get all the unrestricted ones at
> http://ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/
>
> -J
>
>
> On 01/01/15 17:16, John Levin wrote:
>
>> 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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> Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
> Academic IT Services, University of Oxford
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