FW: Text Creation Partnership Releases Over 4,000 New EEBO-TCP Texts

["Olga Francois" <OFrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

Of Interest....





The University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce the release of
4,180 texts from the second phase of its Early English Books Online Text
Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) project.  The Text Creation Partnership
produced these texts in collaboration with ProQuest, and they are
available immediately to EEBO-TCP Phase II partners.



The entire EEBO-TCP archive is now available at
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/, where anyone may search, browse,
and explore the corpus.  Access to the full text of EEBO-TCP digital
editions is restricted to partner institutions for a limited period -
about 10 years from their initial release - as per TCP's agreement with
ProQuest.  However, all TCP-created titles will eventually enter the
public domain, and will be freely available to scholars, researchers,
and readers everywhere, in keeping with the University of Michigan
Library's commitment to the creation of open access cultural heritage
archives.



The TCP is still accepting new library partners for EEBO-TCP Phase II.
Partners jointly fund the creation of new texts, and so have a direct
impact on the success of the project. The production of new texts is
ongoing, and semi-annual updates will be made to the corpus over the
course of the project.



In its first phase, EEBO-TCP produced 25,355 texts, and its second phase
aims to create transcriptions of each unique text remaining in
ProQuest's EEBO database, adding 44,000 more books to the EEBO-TCP
archive.  The creation of accurately keyed, searchable,
standards-compliant digital editions from scanned images of
centuries-old books is a boon to students and scholars.  These early
printed books cannot be accurately captured by optical character
recognition (OCR) software, and therefore require individual keying and
encoding.



Since 1999, the TCP, consisting of staff at the University of Michigan
and the University of Oxford, has collaborated with scholars, commercial
publishers, and university libraries to produce scholar-ready (that is,
TEI-compliant, SGML/XML enhanced) text editions of works from digital
image collections, including EEBO, Eighteenth Century Collections Online
(ECCO) from Gale, and Evans Early American Imprint from Readex.



More than 125 libraries participate in the TCP, as does the Joint
Information Systems (JISC), which represents many British libraries and
educational institutions.



To learn more about the Text Creation Partnership, visit
www.lib.umich.edu/tcp.  Questions, comments, and inquiries may be
directed to Ari Friedlander, Outreach Coordinator, at
tcp-info@xxxxxxxxxx