{"id":605,"date":"2011-08-12T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T10:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/?p=605"},"modified":"2018-08-23T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T22:12:00","slug":"making-the-tcp-ecco-texts-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/making-the-tcp-ecco-texts-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the TCP-ECCO texts accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"

In April, the Text Creation Partnership<\/a> released into the public domain over 2,000 eighteenth century works,\u00a0 in plain text. You can read more about this project and the texts on their blog:<\/p>\n

TCP Releases Over 4,000 New EEBO-TCP\u00a0Texts<\/a><\/p>\n

What the Public Release of ECCO-TCP Texts Means for You, Now and in the\u00a0Future<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, they didn’t make the texts easily accessible. To obtain them one had to apply by email to be subscribed to a Dropbox folder. There is a database and search interface<\/a>, but it requires registration, and is unclear as to who qualifies for an account. I think that the database holds the marked up, XML texts, which have not (yet) been publicly released.<\/p>\n

So I have created a package via the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Data Hub<\/a>. You can download the zip package and an index in csv format from ckan<\/a>. Note the zip bundle is around 142 mb. Don’t try this on dial-up. Check the index<\/a> first. When I have time, I’ll work on a web interface that allows easy searching and sorting of it. I hope also that these texts will be made available individually, but given the number of them that’s not a trivial task.<\/p>\n

What to do with these texts will be discussed tomorrow, Saturday 13th August, at Textcamp (London)<\/a>; the twitter hashtag is #tcamp11<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update: xml (.tei) and epub versions are available from tei-Oxford.
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Update, 17\/04\/2016: the texts can now be found at Oxford Text Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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