The Text Creation Partnership at Michigan and Oxford

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• The Text Creation Partnership at Michigan and
  Oxford

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• EEBO-TCP
• http//eebo.chadwyck.com/home

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• ECCO-TCP
• http//quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eccodemo/

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• Evans-TCP
• http//quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evansdemo/

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• Creating fully searchable electronic texts

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• Partnership between the Universities of Oxford
  and Michigan, the Council on Library and
  Information Resources and the publisher ProQuest
  Information and Learning.
• 25,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable
  SGML/XML text editions already created from among
  the 125,000 titles available in the Early English
  Books Online (EEBO) corpus.

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Anon., The merry cuckold. Who frolickly taking
what chance doth befall, is very well pleased
with wife, hornes and all. London 1628-1629.
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John Gadbury, A true narrative of the horrid
hellish popish-plot. 1682.
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• EEBOs made a colossal difference to research.
• Richard Sugg, Cardiff University

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• EEBO-TCP entirely transforms my research working
  practices
• Gabriel Egan, Loughborough University

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• already having revolutionary effects both on
  research projects ... and on teaching
• Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University

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• a database to which every student of
  early-modern history owes an immense and
  burgeoning debt
• Quentin Skinner, University of Cambridge

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• The creation of searchable texts has transformed
  research in this period
• Jason Scott-Warren, University of Cambridge

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• EEBO is self-evidently the single most important
  resource for humanities scholars working in the
  early modern period
• Janette Dillon, University of Nottingham

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• Working with hard-to-access culturally
  significant texts

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• TCP is the brightest light on the horizon.
• Robert Hatch, University of Florida

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• Making early printed books globally accessible

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• Partnership between the Universities of Michigan,
  Oxford and the publisher Thomson-Gale.
• Will create 10,000 accurately keyed and fully
  searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the
  150,000 titles available in the Eighteenth
  Century Collections Online (ECCO) corpus.

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• Alexander Pope, The Dunciad. An heroic poem. In
  three books. London, 1728.

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• James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D,
  London, 1791.

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• Introducing undergraduates to primary sources

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• Now we can set hundreds and thousands of even
  first year undergraduates free in the equivalent
  of the Rare Books Room.
• Justin Champion, University of London

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• My undergraduates are doing research at a
  doctoral level.
• Richard Bailey, University of Michigan

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• Paul Schaffner
• Michigan University Library
• PFSchaffner_at_umich.edu
• http//www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/

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• Pip Willcox
• Oxford Digital Library
• Pip.Willcox_at_bodley.ox.ac.uk
• http//www.odl.ox.ac.uk/eebo