runs EEBO-TCP and the Middle English Dictionary, and manages the e-text production shop at the University of Michigan library.
Joined February 2008
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17 Jun 2015
@keenera And U is always V. In italic swash-V is its own character #EMDA2015 #EEBOTCP textcreationpartnership.org/…
17 Jun 2015
24 Oct 2014
Council expenses are partly defrayed by home institutions (eg Michigan pays $5k as 'partner', but also $1500 in travel) #TEIConf2014
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17 Sep 2013
Transcription q's (upside-down & missing letters, ambiguous punctuation, spacing) posed by @nonsanzmustarde TCP had to answer too. #eebotcp
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17 Sep 2013
In future TCP will mark those LIST elements that (attempt to) represent genealogical trees. But that leaves 372,000 unmarked LISTs #eebotcp
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17 Sep 2013
Most TCP money goes toward producing (keying and editing) more texts, since it is texts that TCP promised its funders. #eebotcp
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17 Sep 2013
Ca. 95% of EEBO-TCP texts are now associated with an ESTC number, sometimes several, not always accurately, based on existing maps #eebotcp
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17 Sep 2013
Headers supplied with TCP texts are now ca. 99% TEI-header compliant, though based on underlying (ProQuest) MARC catalogue records #eebotcp
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17 Sep 2013
Q: what does 'preservation' mean applied to an intrinsically malleable thing like transcribed text? Stasis is not preservation. #eebotcp
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17 Sep 2013
issues dear to my heart: 'tagging the silences'; encoding uncertainty ambiguity & sheer ignorance; and misalignment of affordances #eebotcp
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17 Sep 2013
Often TCP does, but more often steps behind printer to the underlying intended text, not the book, captures character not sort. #eebotcp
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17 Sep 2013
TCP must always choose whether to align affordances with those available to the printer (e.g. does SORT = GLYPH = character?) #eebotcp
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17 Sep 2013
Scope reduced by excluding everything not in English and not epistolary (i.e. English letters of Thomas Bodley) #eebotcp
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17 Sep 2013
problem with citing URN : impermanence. problem with citing print original: accessability (& dishonesty). So cite both. #eebotcp