“Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies”?
The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012
University of Oxford
17-18 September 2012
To mark a decade of the Text Creation Partnership (TCP)’s work at the Bodleian Libraries, producing searchable, full-text transcriptions of works in Early English Books Online (EEBO), we invite proposals for research papers and posters reflecting the various ways in which TCP texts are being used.
Is EEBO-TCP revolutionizing research and teaching in early modern studies? What features would be desirable but are not yet available? What improvements could be made in the decade to come?
The TCP is a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the University of Michigan and ProQuest. It is funded internationally by a consortium of partner institutions, and in the UK through JISC Collections. TCP editions power full-text searching of ProQuest’s EEBO database, and contribute to many other projects’ work.
To date, the TCP has produced over 40,000 full-text XML editions of books printed between 1473 and 1700. Phase I produced over 25,000 texts, and Phase II, currently underway, will complete the corpus of about 70,000 unique titles in English.
Keynote speakers:
- Dr John Lavagnino, King’s College London
- Dr Emma Smith, University of Oxford
For people interested in using TCP texts for research, one-to-one text clinic sessions are available.
We welcome proposals for papers and posters on:
Research based on EEBO-TCP
Methodologies in teaching
Text editing
Emerging trends influenced by EEBO-TCP’s availability
Potential for future research
Proposals for 20-minute papers should be a maximum of 500 words, and for posters, 250 words.
Deadline for proposals is 21 May 2012.
More information on the EEBO TCP blog.