Looking up stuff in an Early Modern corpus
The following is a discussion of a set of “search and sort” operations that could be useful in exploring the EEBO-TCP corpus of English books before 1700. It also includes some paragraphs about making texts more computationally tractable so that search operations can more quickly answer more complex queries. A good search environment depends as...
Freebo, Free Lunch, and Crowdfunding New EEBO Images
Here is a prefixed postscript (April 18, 2016) to my December 2015 blog post about creating new EEBO images: in a recent conversation with Thomas Stäcker, the deputy director of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (HAB), I learned that their average cost for creating a digital image good enough for most scholarly purposes is about a dollar...