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From: Emma Beer <[log in to unmask]>
"WAKING UP IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY"
Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Text Creation Partnership (TCP)
Events in Manchester and London.
22 March 2005
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester
Early English Books Online (EEBO) holds digital page images of more than
125,000 books, pamphlets, treatises, sermons, plays and other works
published between 1473 and 1700. The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) has
keyed-in a significant portion of these texts, allowing them to be fully
searchable. Almost every book published in English over this period can
be read online at subscribing institutions.
This one-day workshop, organised by the JISC in association with ProQuest
and the English Subject Centre (http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/), will
focus particularly on teaching and research applications in History and
English literature. If you are unable to attend, please look out on the
Subject Centre website and the JISC event page for details of a second
EEBO event which will take place in London in late April.
We are pleased to announce that Professor Justin Champion will be our
keynote speaker.
Thanks to a JISC-brokered deal, EEBO is available to all UK HE
institutions for a nominal hosting fee.
Activities will include:
* An overview of the resource, including details of the latest
developments and immediate plans for the future of the resource
* Exploration of critical, technical and editorial considerations
* Discussion about and examples of teaching and research applications in
History and English Literature with key academics
* Navigation of the resource online with academic experts
* Opportunities to question key representatives
* An opportunity to nominate texts to be prioritised for full-text
searching as part of the Text Creation Partnership’s work.
For full information about the workshop and to book your FREE place,
please visit: www.jisc.ac.uk/wakingup.html. Numbers are limited, so
please book early to secure your place. PhD students are also encouraged
to attend.
We would like to invite UK academics to nominate texts that they would
like to see keyed-in to TCP at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=form&formid=469281704
For an article about this groundbreaking resource see:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=news_eebo
Contact Jonathan Gibson at the English Subject Centre
([log in to unmask]) if you would like to take part in the April
event in London or if you would like to be kept informed of this and other
events involving the Early English Books Resource and its teaching
applications.
Emma Beer
JISC
Arts and Humanities Data Service
King's College London
3rd floor
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL, UK
Tel: +44-(0)207 848 1976
Fax: +44-(0)207 848 1989
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