News Archive

July - December 2000

December 1, 2000
Bids from the keyboarding firms were evaluated and vendors were selected to carry out the keyboarding process.

October 24, 2000
A Request for Quotation was sent out to keyboarding firms. Please click here to see the text of the RFQ.

September, 2000
The Document Type Definition (DTD) for the converson of EEBO texts was finished. The DTD and the discussions that produced it are available here.

July, 2000
Representives from partner institutions and other interested organizations met at ALA in Chicago to discuss the status of EEBO-TCP. Participants at two separate sessions shared ideas on topics ranging from possible strategies for expanding the partnership base to ways of increasing public awareness of its text encoding efforts. In addition, those in attendance compared notes on how EEBO is being used on their campuses, as well as what instructional materials might make EEBO and its encoded texts a more powerful tool for teaching and research. The merits of a users' electronic discussion group were also debated.

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