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July - December 2001

Winners announced for first EEBO/EEBO-TCP Undergraduate Essay Competition; New Call For Papers issued for Essay Contest's second year
Stephanie Batkie of Northwestern University took the $1,000 Grand Prize for her entry, "To Take an Active Role: Reading in Spenser's Faerie Queene." To see a full list of winners and read abstracts from their papers, please click here. To see this year's Call for Papers, please click here.

Oxford University Shop Begins Production of encoded text
In late January of 2001, Richard Gartner and Dave Price of Oxford worked with Paul Schaffner and Maria Bonn of the Michigan-based EEBO-TCP production team to set up our second shop for proofreading newly-encoded texts. Their work almost doubles the EEBO-TCP's production capacity, and will greatly speed the growth of the online collection.

Update meeting held at Midwinter ALA
The EEBO-TCP hosted two meetings at Midwinter ALA to demonstrate the University of Michigan Digital Library's newly-expanded interface for encoded EEBO texts. Representatives from over twenty-five libraries gathered to discuss the progress in production and member recruitment that the Text Creation Partnership has made in the past months, as well as to offer feedback about the search interface. In addition, Hillary Nunn offered an overview of the features of early modern texts and illustrated how they are noted in SGML mark-up. Her PowerPoint slides for this presentation are available here.

Governing Board meeting
The EEBO-TCP governing board met on November 13, 2001, in Washington D.C. to discuss the policies and funding of the EEBO-TCP project. You can read the meeting minutes here.

July 16-17 EEBO-TCP Iinterface task force meeting at Northwestern University
The EEBO-TCP Interface Taskforce met on at Northwestern University to discuss what should be included in the search screens that will serve as access points to encoded EEBO texts. Using a prototype interface constructed by the University of Michigan Digital Library Services, task force members described how they envisioned using EEBO-TCP texts, and the group then worked toward outlining what capabilities an interface would need in order to best meet these expectations. The two-day meeting brought a number of important issues to light, providing valuable insights that will be used to construct a number of different interface design options; these new prototypes will then be made available via the web for evaluation. A summary of the meeting is available for download as a Microsoft word document here.

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