<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">(with apologies for cross posting)<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 January 2015 12:05:49 GMT<br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">James Cummings <<a href="mailto:James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk" class="">James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk</a>><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk" class="">James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk</a></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class=""> release of EEBO Phase 1 texts</b><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class="">Subject: release of EEBO Phase 1 texts<br class="">Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:27 +0000<br class=""><br class="">Many readers of this list will be aware that the first tranche (c.25k) of transcribed and marked-up books from the Text Creation Partnership's Early English Books Online (EEBO) collection goes into the public domain today.<br class=""><br class="">You can read all about TCP and EEBO at <a href="http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/tcp-eebo/" class="">http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/tcp-eebo/</a> and <a href="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eebotcp/" class="">http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eebotcp/</a><br class=""><br class="">The University of Oxford is now making this collection, together with Gale Cengage's Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), and Readex's Evans Early American Imprints, available in various formats (TEI P5 XML, HTML and ePub) initially via the University of Oxford Text Archive at <a href="http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/" class="">http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/</a>, and offering the source XML for community collaborative editing via Github. For the convenience of UK universities who subscribe to JISC Historic Books, a link to page images is also provided. We hope that the XML will serve as the base for enhancements and corrections.<br class=""><br class="">This catalogue also lists EEBO Phase 2 texts, but the HTML and ePub versions of these can only be accessed by members of the University of Oxford.<br class=""><br class="">[Technical note]<br class="">Those interested in working on the TEI P5 XML versions of the texts can check them out of Github, via <a href="https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/" class="">https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/</a>, where each of the texts is in its own repository (eg <a href="https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A00021" class="">https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A00021</a>). There is a CSV file listing all the texts at <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/Texts/master/TCP.csv" class="">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/Texts/master/TCP.csv</a>, and a simple Linux/OSX shell script to clone all 32853 unrestricted repositories at <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/Texts/master/cloneall.sh" class="">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/Texts/master/cloneall.sh</a></div></blockquote></div></body></html>