EEBO in TypeWright We are pleased to announce that the Mellon-funded Early Modern OCR Project – eMOP – has completed running Optical Character Recognition Software on the 138,538 documents in ProQuest’s Early English Books Online (EEBO), and we are now making almost all of them available in 18thConnect.org for correcting the OCR. Some document images […]
Philadelphia’s yellow fever epidemic of 1793 tested the civic and religious leaders of a city trying out its role as forerunner of liberty in the new Republic. Striving printer and publisher Mathew Carey became the self-appointed narrator of the epidemic, reporting what he witnessed, remediating anecdotes, and including lists of the recently deceased in his […]
Numerous TypeWright users, many from the ranks of teachers and collaborating scholars, have asked us how to manage a group of people editing a single document in TypeWright. Therefore, the team decided to produce a “How To.” Believe us, there are many, many other ways to do this! We chose to publish this method to […]
Spring semesters around the world are drawing to a close, and the endings of academic quarters will soon follow. Soon we will once again have time for frolicking — and for TypeWrighting!. To honor all students in their current fervor–and to keep their TypeWright skills from eroding […]
I will not speak of the weather, in hopes that we may induce Spring to stay with us for a long visit. In Honor of her latest triumph over the Polar Vortex, I present our new TypeWright Featured Text: “The Triumph of Wit,” a 1712 collection of poems by John Shirley on various miscellaneous topics. […]
Many thanks to user kosborn4 for completing the correction of the underlying text for the 1800 printing of Reynard the Fox! Our team is processing his copy of the corrected text, as we do for all the TypeWriters who contribute substantially to a document’s corrected text. Since the correction of the 1800 document is […]
Lets celebrate the new year with a text that is both old and new. I have chosen an 1800 printing (new at the time) of an age-old tale, Reynard the Fox. We have several versions of this text that stretch across the long 18th Century. The earliest version in 18thConnect, from 1662, bills itself as “newly corrected […]
We on the 18thConnect team are delighted that several 18thConnect users are working with and completing TypeWright texts, including the TypeWright featured texts! And we have received a flurry of corrected documents as the semester winds down. We look forward to getting feedback from so many users, via the linked Survey, which can be accessed […]
The Indian Emperour, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, being the sequel of The Indian Queen. John Dryden 1703 printing of a play. This is the oldest TypeWright enabled version included in 18thConnect, of a play first produced in 1665, and first printed in 1667. The play went through various printings, and we […]