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.
January 11, 2006
TCP is proud to announce that it will be holding a conference
in Ann Arbor September 14-17, 2006. The Call for Papers is below.
Please feel to pass this on, or contact Shawn Martin for further
information:
Bringing Text Alive:
The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication
The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project was founded at the
University of Michigan in 1999 to reinvent scholarship by creating
fully searchable texts of thousands of titles printed across three
hundred years and two continents of English and American history.
TCP includes texts selected from three commercially produced
page image collections, Early English Books Online (EEBO), available
from ProQuest Information and Learning, Evans Early American Imprints
(Evans), available from Newsbank-Readex and Eighteenth Century
Collections Online (ECCO), available from Thompson-Gale. Additionally,
TCP’s production has expanded to include centers at Oxford
University, the University of Toronto, and the National Library
of Wales. TCP cooperates directly with over a dozen international
scholarly projects devoted to subjects as wide ranging as historical
linguistics, literary studies, bibliographic studies, and metadata
integration. Scholars and students alike, in these disciplines
and many others have found often make the claim that resources
like EEBO, Evans, ECCO, and the TCP have revolutionized their
work and by making primary sources widely available, will “bring
literature alive” (Thomas Pack, E-Content, Dec. 1999). As
the TCP project reaches the halfway mark of its original goals,
it seems a good time to investigate how it brings literature in
all disciplines to life in this exciting conference.
The conference invites papers from scholars, students (graduate
and undergraduate), librarians, publishers, or other interested
people in all disciplines to investigate topics such as (but not
limited to):
• Changes in the landscape of scholarship and pedagogy introduced
by electronic resources like EEBO, Evans, ECCO, and the TCP
• Examples of teaching with such resources
• Examples of doing research with such resources
• Use of related resources like ESTC or Early American Newspapers
• The changing nature of scholarly communication
• Electronic publication
• Digital library development.
The conference will be held September 14 - 17, 2006 in Ann Arbor,
MI
Deadline for paper submissions is May 15, 2006
For more information contact:
Shawn Martin
TCP Project Librarian
8076-B Hatcher S.
920 N. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: (734) 975-0102
Fax: (734) 763-5080
e-mail: shawnmar@umich.edu
Or visit the conference website http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/conference
January 22, 2006
Minutes of TCP Project Update
ALA Midwinter Conference – San Antonio, TX –
January 22, 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 introduced William Gosling and the representatives
from the three publishing partners (ProQuest, Readex, and Gale).
Board Update:
William Gosling then introduced the Board members who were present
and gave a brief summary of the meeting which included updates
on current outreach and budgetary concerns, the opportunities
of moving forward with three projects (EEBO, Evans, and ECCO),
and the challenges in administering three projects as we move
into the future. The Board meeting also included discussion of
the impact of the Google digitization project on TCP and the upcoming
TCP conference. More complete details are available in the Board
meeting minutes available at http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo/News/Board_10_20_Minutes.html
Bill also mentioned that:
• the TCP project currently has the revenues needed to produce
between 18,000 and 20,000 texts
• EEBO and Evans texts fully searchable and use increasing
• ECCO demo available with 20 texts
• All of these texts are fully cross searchable, meaning
users can search across EEBO, Evans, and ECCO regardless of the
commercial product
• Increasing number of scholarly interest and TCP working
with projects at 7 universities in U.S. and Canada (in the U.S.:
University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Washington University
- St. Louis, University of Pennsylvania, and in Canada: University
of Toronto, University of Victoria, and University of Western
Ontario)
• The TCP conference will be held September14-17 for which
there has already been great response, and we received money from
the Delmas foundation and some of the publishers to sponsor the
conference. A great opportunity to talk about common issues and
explore the future of TCP.
Publisher Update:
Representatives from the three publishers then updated the group
about their products. Remmel Nunn from Readex said that Evans
now has 376 subscribers and continues to grow, and TCP continues
to select and recruit partners to achieve the goal of creating
6,000 texts. Scott Dawson from Gale mentioned that ECCO now has
138,000 titles and over 110 subscribers including subscribers
in Brazil, China, and the UK. Mary Sauer-Games from ProQuest talked
about the increasing interest of smaller liberal arts institutions
subscribing to EEBO and the integration of EEBO-TCP text and EEBO
images in the interface available from ProQuest.
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
EEBO-TCP
• Lafayette College
• Virginia Tech
• Haverford College
Evans-TCP
• Rice University
• University of Miami
Production:
EEBO-TCP now has 10,982 texts currently available and adds around
500 bi-monthly.
Evans-TCP now has 1,078 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 314 items are completed which will go
into the database once its online, and it adds around 150 texts
bi-monthly.
DLXS, the interface used to deliver TCP text, has also undergone
an upgrade which will allow users to do a variety of things including
view foreign characters, musical notation, and gaps in text in
a better way.
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 in Scholarship:
Scholars are now routinely using TCP in their own research and
teaching in a variety of areas (not just Renaissance studies).
Scholars or staff from the TCP will be speaking at the following
conferences in 2006:
• American Historical Association
• Renaissance Society of America
• Society of Early Americanists
• American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Also, TCP text is being used in the following scholarly projects
• Virtual Standardization (Northwestern)
• Philologic (Chicago)
• Spenser Editing Project (Washington)
• Renaissance Knowledgebase (Victoria)
• Lexicon of Early Modern English (Toronto)
• Two teaching projects in linguistics (Pennsylvania) and
scholarly editing (Western Ontario)
Undergraduate Essay Contest:
The winners of the Undergraduate Essay Contest are
Grand Prize: Courtney Peacock – Brigham Young University
A New Israel: The Tetragrammaton and English Protestantism
First Prize: Stefania Crowther – University of Warwick
“Never Was King So Like to God Before:” Stella Meridiana
and the Restoration Panegyric
Second Prize: Michael Sechler – University of Pittsburgh
Old Words, New Pages: Milton, Bracton, and the “Century
of Revolution
Honorable Mention: Edward Esborn – Johns Hopkins University
Apprenticeship and Popular Literature in Seventeenth Century London
Honorable Mention: Emma Easy – University of Warwick
Mass Politics and Tory Anxieties: Thomas Durfey’s The Royalist
TCP Conference:
The TCP is hosting a conference September 14-17, 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.
Discussion:
The bulk of the meeting was spent in discussion of the wider
issues relating to the TCP initiative. The discussion was led
by Nancy Davenport, the President of the Council on Library and
Information Resources.
Questions included:
1. Is TCP a model for large scale production of such resources?
2. What tools will the next generation of scholars need?
3. Is there an approach to this that can be systematic?
4. If you could re-create TCP, how would you do it differently?
5. Why is TCP an important tool for libraries?
We are very grateful to Nancy Davenport for facilitating an excellent
discussion and for all of the people who contributed. There were
many excellent ideas for further outreach possibilities, improvement
of the system to facilitate better searching for scholars, and
ideas that could and should be explored further at the TCP conference.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussion, and staff
at the TCP, publishers, and vendors will be discussing these ideas
in the coming weeks to determine what will be possible over the
next six months.
January 1, 2006
The TCP has released a new newsletter
for Winter of 2005/2006 containing general updates for the EEBO-TCP,
Evans-TCP projects, and ECCO-TCP. This newsletter is released
bi-annually by the project for people interested in updates, how
the projects are used, and more.
If you have any questions or comments about the newsletter or
would like some paper copies, please contact shawnmar@umich.edu.
June 26, 2005
Minutes of the TCP Meetings at the ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago,
IL
The Text Creation Partnership held one meeting on June 26th with
representatives from ProQuest, Gale, and Readex. The meeting was
very well attended by representatives of current partner institutions,
text conversion vendors, and those considering partnership.
The meeting started off with introductions from Mark Sandler
and an update from TCP Board Chair, William Gosling who reported:
1. About 1,000 texts have been added to EEBO since January and
TCP collections will total 10,000 during the summer.
2. Evans text production continues at a rate of about 75 per
month. There are over 600 currently and there should be close
to 750 in the Summer.
3. ProQuest continues to add text to their database 676 last
month for a total of 8,600 currently
4. 20 institutions have joined since January (12 EEBO, 8 Evans)
including 10 ARLs
5. There is a demo for the ECCO-TCP containing 22 texts keyboarding
vendors have been selected to commence at a rate of about 75 texts
per month
6. Usage stats for the database continue to go up. There are
47,000 uses so far this year as compared to 29,000 this time last
year (92,000 total for last year).
Shawn Martin then went into more detail on some of these points.
He listed the new partners for EEBO-TCP: Dartmouth College, MIT,
Skidmore College, Tulane University, University of British Columbia,
University of California - Irvine, University of Nebraska, University
of Ottawa, University of Southern California, Williams College,
and York University and Evans-TCP: Baylor University, Claremont
Colleges, Dartmouth College, Emory University, Simon Fraser University,
Texas Christian University, UCLA, Utah State University, and Williams
College.
Shawn also pointed out that Evans-TCP has been increasing its
visibility in scholarship including a recent presentation on Evans
and Evans-TCP in graduate teaching at the Society of Early Americanists
in Spring of 2005.
Finally, Shawn demonstrated the new ECCO-TCP demo site available
at http://www.hti.umich.edu/e/eccodemo/
Catherine Mardikes and Mark Olsen from the University of Chicago
then demonstrated the implementation of EEBO-TCP texts into the
PhiloLogic database at the University of Chicago and how partner
institutions of the TCP can integrate texts into their own interfaces
for local audiences and uses.
Martin Mueller, a professor of English at Northwestern University
then talked about one particular use for his research. He works
on historical linguistics and is using TCP and other texts to
create spelling normalization on variants of early modern English
and can quickly look at variants, manipulate text, and create
concordances in a matter of seconds with TCP text and computer
programs like PhiloLogic with much greater accuracy and speed
than has ever before been possible.
TCP is very grateful for the insights and expertise of Martin
Mueller, Catherine Mardikes, and Mark Olsen and is thankful for
their willingness to come to the meeting and share their thoughts.
January 1, 2005
Evans-TCP is now available to partner institutions
at http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/e/evans/.
There are around 300 titles currently available and 150 are added
bi-monthly.
January 16, 2005
Minutes of the TCP Meetings at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston,
MA
The Text Creation Partnership held one meeting on January 16th
with representatives from ProQuest, Gale, and Readex. The meeting
was very well attended by representatives of current partner institutions,
text conversion vendors, and those considering partnership.
The meeting opened with an introduction by Mark Sandler who thanked
everyone for coming and talked about the Google digitization project
now going forward at Michigan and Michigan's dedication to making
digital access available.
Representatives from the three commercial publishers then spoke
about their respective databases. Mary Sauer-Games from ProQuest
mentioned that TCP texts have been loaded into their database
and around 6,000 are currently available. Also, they had an excellent
year for sales with consortiums in Canada and the Oberlin group
buying EEBO and many of them coming into TCP as well. Remmel Nunn
from Readex also talked about sales for the Evans and the Archive
Americana project. Rich Foley from Gale then spoke about the ECCO
project and a good year for them in sales as well too.
Shawn Martin then gave an update on the TCP projects.
1. It was an excellent year for TCP. Overall, 30 institutions
joined the partnership last year. Since ALA Annual, the following
institutions joined EEBO-TCP: Albion College, Bates College, Brown
University, Bucknell University, Carleton College, Colby College,
Earlham College, Mt. Holyoke College, National University of Ireland
- Galway, Rollins College, St. Louis University, UC – Berkeley,
University of Arizona, University of Arkansas, University of Maryland,
University of Mississippi, University of Western Ontario, and
Western Michigan University. The following joined Evans-TCP: Johns
Hopkins University, Stanford University, University of Connecticut,
University of North Carolina – Greensboro, University of
Pennsylvania, and the Appalachian College Association (representing
over 30 colleges in the Appalachian region).
There are now nearly 8,000 texts available in EEBO-TCP. Around
500 are added bi-monthly, and there has been increased usage over
the past year. Evans-TCP is now available to partner institutions
at http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/e/evans/.
There are around 300 titles currently available and 150 are added
bi-monthly. TCP is beginning to start production on ECCO-TCP and
we hope to have a demo by summer of 2005.
2. The Board of Directors also met in October of 2004 and discussed
among many issues the evolving role of the Board given the addition
of two new projects, the project budget, rights of use for publishers
and scholarly projects to use TCP texts, a price increase for
new partners scheduled to take place in April of 2005, how to
include multiple editions of text when asked by scholars, and
how to evolve the TCP model to fit larger community goals. The
TCP is very grateful for the insights and advice of the Board
members who include: Betty G. Bengtson
(Emeritus, University of Washington), David Braden (Readex Digital),
Nancy Davenport (Council on Library and Information Resources),
Richard Foley (Thomson-Gale), David S. Ferriero (New York Public
Library), Marianne Gaunt (Rutgers University),William A. Gosling
(Chair, University of Michigan), Deanna B. Marcum (Library of
Congress), Sarah C. Michalak
( University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), William Miller
(Florida Atlantic University), Ronald Milne (University of Oxford),
Carole Moore (University of Toronto), Mary Sauer-Games (ProQuest
Information and Learning), David Stam (Syracuse University), and
William D. Walker (University of Miami)
3. In January of 2005 the University of Chicago launched TCP
texts into the PhiloLogic database available at http://lib.uchicago.edu/efts/EEBO/.
This allows users the ability to gain access to the texts and
manipulate it in new ways.
4. The winners of the EEBO in Undergraduate essay contest were
Grand Prize: Heidi Atwood – Washington College
“Thy leaden heels no golden wit doth show:” Physick,
Alchemy, and the Body Corporeal in Milton’s Paradise Lost
First Prize: Meghan Fadel – SUNY – Buffalo
Reason through the Unreasonable
Second Prize: Daniel Ward – University of Warwick
Literary Presentation of Political Events in Sir Thomas Durfey’s
Sir Barnaby Whigg
Honorable Mention: Bianca Bonomi – University of Warwick
Literary presentation of political/religious events in John
Dryden’s Amboyna
Honorable Mention: Charles Mallison – University of Southern
California
With High Astounding Terms: Christopher Marlowe, Turkish Hysteria,
and Subversion on the Elizabethan Stage.
Thanks also to our judges Katrien Daemen-de Gelder (Professor
of English, University of Ghent), Julia Gardner (School of Information,
University of Michigan), Arthur Kinney (Professor of English,
University of Massachusetts), Hillary Nunn (Professor of English,
University of Akron), Newton Key (Professor of English, Eastern
Illinois University), and Kim Yates (Assistant Director, Centre
for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto).
More information is available about the essay contest at http://www.lib.umich.edu/edu_essay.html.
The second half of the meeting was devoted to a roundtable discussion
of the TCP in academic research and in teaching. TCP invited the
following to give their perspectives on how such resources have
been used in their work and how such things could be used as we
move into the future:
Steven Bullock – Professor of History, Worcester Polytechnic
Institute
Ellen Dunlap – Director, American Antiquarian Society
Wayne Franklin – Professor of English, Northeastern University
Brendan Rapple – Collection Development Librarian, Boston
College
We are very grateful for their insights and expertise and thankful
for their willingness to come to the meeting and share their thoughts.
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July 23, 2004
Evans-TCP Selection Task Force Report
Thursday,
May 20 – Friday, May 21
2004
Faculty
Participants: Steven Bullock
(Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Wayne Franklin (Northeastern University),
Edward Griffin (University of Minnesota), David Hancock (University of
Michigan), Leon Jackson (University of South Carolina), Michael Jarvis
(University of Rochester), Karen Kupperman (New York University), Molly
McCarthy (American Antiquarian Society Fellow), Meredith McGill (Rutgers
University), Michael Warner (Rutgers University)
Librarian
Participants: Nancy Godleski (Yale
University), Marcia Pankake (University
of Minnesota), Barbara Preece (Boston
Library Consortium)
American
Antiquarian Society Staff: Nancy
Burkett, Joanne Chaison, Alan Degutis, Ellen Dunlap, John Hench, Tom Knoles
University
of Michigan Staff: Shawn
Martin, Mark Sandler
Readex
Staff: Remmel Nunn, Caroline Reyes
Purpose: To discuss and draft guidelines for
selection of titles from the Evans Digital collection available from Readex for
full text conversion in the Evans – Text Creation Partnership (TCP) collection.
Discussions:
The
first day of discussion began with discussion of how electronic resources are
used in the classroom and in research.
Particular attention was paid to the relationship between the Evans
Digital product with its Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software and the
full-text for the Evans-TCP and how to select materials that would benefit from
having a richer text edition. This led
to a discussion of who the primary audience for the Evans-TCP is. It was generally agreed that more advanced
researchers (including faculty and graduate students) would want the breadth of
the entire collection offered by Readex.
Members of the task force considered undergraduate students to be the
primary audience for the TCP collection for several reasons. First, they are most likely to want greater
keyword searching. Also, the digital
images from Evans can be very difficult for novice readers and readers will
eventually be able to see the TCP text in a modern font whereas they will not
be able to see the OCR in the Readex product. Additionally, because EEBO-TCP
editions will be owned by the academic community and will enter the public
domain, the task force needed to consider which works from the Evans collection
are most likely to be used and distributed in other kinds of academic projects
and educational materials. With these
things in mind, it becomes important to create a collection that will have
enduring value for teaching in the years to come.
Several
approaches were considered such as using the genre lists and categorization
already used in the Evans collection.
Also, since OCR is not as accurate as the fully keyboarded text, perhaps
the quality of the OCR should be a consideration in selecting works for the
TCP. Others suggested the use of anthologies
of American literature, primary citations in relevant scholarly literature, or
the use of the genre lists in the Readex product. Many thought it would be good to include everything
of a particular genre like poetry and novels.
There was some concern, however, that this not be too focused on
literature. Some felt that other
scholars, especially historians, needed to focus on materials like indentures
and legal documents. Additionally, it
was important that there was a geographic and temporal balance. Not only should all of the colonies be
represented, but if there were materials relating to other parts of the British
empire, like the Caribbean, they should be
considered as well, and all time periods should be fairly represented so that
it is not too slanted toward just the Revolutionary period. A need for inclusion of seventeenth century
materials was especially noted because those materials are so rare and
difficult to obtain that there was a need for a full text edition of these
titles.
Members
of the TCP and the AAS then talked about the processes they have been using in
both the Evans-TCP and an earlier project, the Early English Books Online
(EEBO)-TCP. Joanne Chaison from the AAS
talked about the many bibliographies she had used and about her consultation
with scholars. Shawn Martin from TCP
discussed the guidelines of the EEBO-TCP project. Members of the task force then discussed some
of the guidelines used so far and whether they should be continued into the
Evans-TCP selection criteria, specifically what items could or should be
excluded. Examples of this would be
titles in languages other than English and also subsequent editions. It was decided that the Evans-TCP should
follow more or less along the same lines of EEBO-TCP including only first
editions unless there is a reason to do otherwise, and that no materials should
be excluded because of language.
However, considering the length and number of Bibles and almanacs in the
collection, it would probably be appropriate to exclude them from the TCP.
Then,
since it had been mentioned several times, it was suggested that members brain
storm some specific topics that might be of interest to potential users of the
database. Topics mentioned were Common
Sense, the Federalist Papers, witchcraft, slavery, captivity
narratives, the Great Awakening, Indians and European encounters with them,
Indian treaties, primers, psalters, children’s literature, economic life, economic
development, material culture and life, immigration, technology, the founding
fathers, histories, election sermons, travel literature, novels, poetry, drama,
exploration business literature, broadsides, natural history, the American
Revolution, and colonial law.
The
second day of discussion focused almost entirely on drafting a set of
guidelines for the future selection of Evans-TCP materials. It was decided that the following should be
set:
- Include all materials from
the seventeenth century (assuming they can be transcribed)
- Include all other authors
from the Bibliography of American Literature
- Consult other seminal
anthologies like Heath, Norton, and MacMillan for other authors and titles
- Include only 1st
editions (unless there is a compelling scholarly reason to do otherwise)
- Put out a survey to relevant
scholars for inclusion of other materials and titles
It
was decided that these guidelines should help to create a balanced corpus of
material for the subset of items that will be transcribed in the Evans-TCP
collection. The AAS will be sending out
a survey to relevant scholars requesting not only canonical works but also
lesser known works and materials (like indentures and legal works) that should
be included as well. In all, this should
help to build the Evans-TCP collection and the staff of both the AAS and TCP
are extremely grateful for the time and effort of the people involved. For further questions, information about this
meeting or for suggestions of potential Evans-TCP titles, please contact evanstcp-info@umich.edu.
June 27, 2004
Minutes of the TCP Meetings at the ALA Annual Meeting in Orlando,
FL
The Text Creation Partnership held two meetings on June 27th
with representatives from ProQuest, Gale, and Readex. Both were
well attended by representatives of current partner institutions,
text conversion vendors, and those considering partnership.
The meeting opened with an introduction by Mark Sandler who thanked
everyone for coming and introduced Bill Gosling, University Librarian
at the University of Michigan and Chair of the EEBO-TCP Advisory
Board. Bill talked about the tremendous impact the project has
had on teaching and research and noted the contributions of partners
both in North America and the UK, most notably Oxford University,
our EEBO-TCP project partner in the UK. Perry Willett, the new
Director of Digital Library Production Services at the University
of Michigan then spoke about the efforts and insights of DLPS
and their tremendous amount of expertise and dedication to the
project.
Shawn Martin then began updates on the three products and projects.
Mary Sauer-Games from ProQuest talked about the new interface
and loading of text that ProQuest has recently done and how much
it has and will continue to enhance the EEBO product for students
and researchers; Remmel Nunn from Readex discussed the development
of the Evans product, and Rich Foley talked about the partnership
with TCP and the development of the ECCO product from Gale.
EEBO-TCP
Finally, Robert Hatch, a professor of the history of science at
the University of Florida discussed his own use of EEBO-TCP in research
and in teaching. He demonstrated his website and how he uses it
in classes. He then helped to lead the group in a discussion of
how TCP could be used in classroom teaching, and how librarians
and scholars can work together to promote and develop these resources.
We're very grateful for Prof. Hatch's insights and expertise, and
thank him again for his willingness to come to the meeting.
TCP has released its latest newsletter for winter 2004.
If you have any questions or comments about the newsletter or
would like some paper copies, please contact shawnmar@umich.edu.
Minutes of the TCP Meetings at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San
Diego, CA
The Text Creation Partnership held two meetings in San Diego
on January 10th and 11th. One held in the Westin Horton Plaza
with representatives from ProQuest, Gale, and Readex, and a smaller
one in the ProQuest suite at the San Diego Marriott. Both were
well attended by representatives of both current partner institutions
and those considering partnership.
The meeting opened with an introduction by Mark Sandler who thanked
people for coming, discussed the tremendous development and scope
that the TCP project had taken recently and introduced representatives
from the three commercial publishers ProQuest, Readex, and Thomson-Gale.
Ron Klausner, President of ProQuest Information and Learning
then greeted attendees and discussed ProQuest's role in both the
TCP and in teaching and learning among its customers. ProQuest
is excited to be a part of this and looks forward to continuing
to promote scholarship through its initiatives.
At the meeting on the 10th, Ron was then followed by Rich Foley
from Gale and Mark Sandler (who spoke on behalf of Readex). All
of whom expressed their excitement to be involved with this initiative
and their continued hopes for the success of the project.
Bill Gosling, University Librarian at the University of Michigan
then talked about the role the project had played in scholarship
and the tremendous leadership that the project had displayed as
a model for future collaboration. He especially thanked Mark Sandler
for his continued leadership in the development of this initative.
Shawn Martin then discussed the current developments in the three
initiatives.
Jo-Anne Hogan from ProQuest then talked about ProQuest's new interface
just released in the autumn and talked about how ProQuest was able
to integrate TCP texts into their database and the advantages that
this has brought to their users. TCP is very happy to have this
cooperation with ProQuest and looks forward to the possibilities
that integration with the images will bring both to the use of TCP
text as well as to the scholarly community.
Mark Sandler then discussed the future development of the project
and how he continues to see it growing and serving as a model for
the future. One example of this is the recent partnership with Thomson-Gale,
but more may happen. It is exciting to see this idea move further,
and both Mark and the partners of the project look forward to seeing
how TCP develops over the next few years.
Finally, attendees of the meeting discussed how EEBO-TCP has been
used in scholarship and teaching in their classrooms and what has
been done to promote use of the database on campus. We would especially
like to thank Jeff Garrett (Northwestern), Tom Izbicki (Johns Hopkins),
and Bob Scott (Columbia) for their hard work in promoting this project
to their scholars and for their willingness to contribute to the
discussion.
Evans-TCP is pleased to announce the commencement of Evans-TCP
production. Staff from the Evans-TCP recently talked with staff
from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the selectors for
the Evans-TCP), and will be beginning production of the first
round of Evans titles very soon. Vendors have already been chosen
and the titles have been selected, and the Evans-TCP project anticipates
having a fully functional database site ready by sometime early
next year.
Thanks to everyone who has committed to joining the Evans-TCP;
we look forward to working with you!
If you have any questions or comments about the newsletter or
would like some paper copies, please contact shawnmar@umich.edu.
The Text Creation Partnership will be at the 2003 Annual ALA
conference with our partners, ProQuest Information and Learning.
At the meeting we will be discussing
1. New EEBO-TCP Partners
2. Production Updates for the EEBO-TCP
3. Updates on distribution of EEBO-TCP Catalog records
4. Known research and instructional use of EEBO this year
5. Update on EEBO-TCP Usage Data
6. Announcement of the Evans-TCP initiative
7. New Evans-TCP Partners
8. Announcement of Evans-Demo and Website
9. Discussion of future directions for the TCP
Please join us in the Wellington Room at the Crowne Plaza - Toronto
Centre Hotel on
The Text Creation Partnership envisions keyboarding 6,000 of these works according to the standards
already developed in the Evans Project. We look forward to making this important corpus even more
accessible. For more information, please contact Shawn Martin at shawnmar@umich.edu