Tag Archives: historical commons

Making the TCP-ECCO texts accessible

Posted on August 12, 2011 by johnl

In April, the Text Creation Partnership released into the public domain over 2,000 eighteenth century works,  in plain text. You can read more about this project and the texts on their blog: TCP Releases Over 4,000 New EEBO-TCP Texts What the … Continue reading →

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Murdoch redux

Posted on June 21, 2010 by johnl

Following on from my previous post, some news: The British Library has backed down from digitising and putting online out of copyright editions of the Times. This raises serious questions about its whole mission: are they resigned to the irreplaceable … Continue reading →

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The Enclosure of the Historical Commons (2): Murdoch Junior

Posted on May 26, 2010 by johnl

Last week James Murdoch spoke at the launch of UCL’s new Centre for Digital Humanities. Quite why they invited him I don’t know, for he appears to have no idea of what the Digital Humanities are. That said, his speech … Continue reading →

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The Enclosure of the Historical Commons, part 1

Posted on November 16, 2009 by johnl

Today, the Commons has become – one could say, returned as – a key political desire. From peasants to hackers, squatters to scientists,  shared resources for all to contribute to and benefit from are invented, built, defended, with varying degrees … Continue reading →

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