Interface
The Text Creation Partnership, the University of Michigan, and Oxford University are committed to creating an accurately keyed and tagged file of thousands of texts that the library community will own in common. The texts will be made available to partner institutions for local load and management; partner institutions being encouraged to develop their own interface that reflects the needs and priorities of their campus users. While the emphasis of the Text Creation Partnership is on text creation, the lead institutions are providing a functional interface to ensure partner access to the searchable EEBO text corpus. ProQuest is also committed to making the text available to EEBO text partners on their EEBO site and is working with the community to ensure the functionality of that site.

To ensure the usefulness of the texts being created, Partner institutions have made efforts to understand the needs of researchers and students working with the EEBO corpus. Toward this end, an EEBO-TCP Interface Taskforce met at Northwestern University on July 16 and 17, 2001 to discuss the special problems of working with early modern and renaissance texts and needed features to support research and instruction. The two-day meeting brought a number of important issues to light, summarized here. Jeff Garrett, Associate University Librarian for Collection Development at Northwestern University, published an account of the meeting in the February 2002 issue of College and Research Library News (vol. 63 no. 2). It is reproduced with the permission of the American Library Association and Available here.