June 25, 2006

Minutes of TCP Project Update

ALA Annual Conference – New Orleans, LA – June 25, 2006

Introduction:

The meeting began with Mark Sandler talking about the continued interest in the three projects and the great turnouts there are for each meeting. He then turned the meeting over to John Price-Wilkin who thanked Mark for his continued service to the University Library and particularly to the TCP project. Though Mark is leaving for a job at the CIC, the library is committed to continuing the project and looks forward to further involvement with Mark regarding TCP and many other projects. John then turned it over to the three publishing partners, Readex, ProQuest, and Gale to discuss updates with their products.

TCP Updates:

Shawn Martin then updated the group on the latest developments with the TCP.

New Partners:

The TCP now has 5 new partners including both large research institutions and small liberal arts colleges

Evans-TCP
• Ohio University
• University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Production:

EEBO-TCP now has 11,463 texts currently available and adds around 500 bi-monthly.

Evans-TCP now has 1,207 texts currently available and adds 150 bi-monthly.

ECCO-TCP has a demo now available to partner institutions at http://www.hti.umich.edu/e/eccodemo/. There are 23 titles currently online in the demo, and 566 items are completed which will go into the database once its online, and it adds around 150 texts bi-monthly.

ECCO-TCP- Task Force

In August of 2005, TCP held a task force to determine selection guidelines for the ECCO-TCP collection. They suggested that TCP:

• Use New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
• Supplement with suggestions from scholars
• Normally exclude titles in languages other than English
• Focus on titles with complex structure
• Focus on authors who cross 17th and 18th centuries

TCP Conference:

The TCP is hosting a conference September 15-16, 2006 to discuss issues of how TCP is used in scholarship, research, and teaching. It is open to all who have an interest including librarians, professors, publishers, vendors, non-profits, students (undergraduate and graduate). For more information visit the conference website http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/conference.

Virtual Modernization:

Jeff Garrett then gave a talk about the virtual modernization project he and Martin Mueller are working on at Northwestern. A copy of his slides are available at http://www.library.northwestern.edu/collections/garrett/TCP_Virt-Mod.ppt

ECCO Records

Mark and Jeff then discussed a project currently going on in partnership with ESTC, Gale, and several universities to include subject headings in records for the ECCO. This will greatly enhance the accessiblity of the database to a variety of users including both advanced scholars and undergraduates.