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The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership is proud to
announce that it now has a preview of its searchable texts online.
Created from works contained in the Pollard and Redgrave, Wing, and Thomason Tracts catalogs, these texts are the first of 25,000 that the Partnership plans to convert into SGML encoded files.
The demonstration site can be accessed through our newly-designed homepage,
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/eebo/, or directly at
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/eebo/DemoSite.html.
The search interface shown at the EEBO-TCP demonstration site is in the
early stages of development, and at present it contains a scant eight
titles. Nonetheless, feedback is welcome.
Based at the University of Michigan and Oxford University, the EEBO-TCP is funded by a growing pool of libraries who in turn receive full rights to the encoded text files. Because the works to be encoded date from 1475 to 1700, they present a unique set of challenges - among them, blackletter fonts, marred pages, and complex printing conventions. The EEBO-TCP's database aims to make these works far more accessible while maintaining the integrity of the source texts.
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