Paul Schaffner

runs EEBO-TCP and the Middle English Dictionary, and manages the e-text production shop at the University of Michigan library.

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@Michael_A_Gavin @benmschmidt @librarycongress @NEHgov I don't have the exact numbers (and U-M library contributions are excluded anyway), but $16million is a decent approximation. Roughly $1m per year.

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@benmschmidt @Michael_A_Gavin @librarycongress @NEHgov Some of the very latest additions to EEBO may have come direct (those that are in gray-scale), but most or possibly all was scanned from film (most as 2-bit images), and not all the film was old: even as books were added, they were first filmed, the scanned.

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@J_Misson Finally, a legible font. Please distribute it!

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@iangadd @roaringgirle @gregg_sh @GilesBergel ...& over 200,000 pilcrows (normal, inverted, reversed) and their relatives (we don't distinguish 'capitulum'-style from 'pilcrow'-style marks). In 2,600 phase 1 texts.

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@iangadd @roaringgirle .. and there are a lot of them in there. Nearly 15,000 (in about 1,000 files), just in phase 1.

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@iangadd @roaringgirle ... because they often butt up against words and would make those words unsearchable by seeming to be word-initial letters. We're thinking of changing this by introducing artificial spacing around the manicules. Meanwhile feel free to download all of phase 1 and grep it manually!

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@FW_Medieval Thank you. Both the variety of ME and the reticence -- the reliance on inference -- and inconsistency of the print MED pose challenges and raise questions. Should we, e.g., index c- and k- as equivalent everywhere? This would solve the kunnyng problem, but at what cost?

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@TCFCares But: will it retain the ability to print out bank statements, including check images, in pdf form? This is my only use for online banking.

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@deidrereads Curious if you mean omissions in the transcript or deliberate elisions in the source (incl abbrevs). Welcome to #EEBOtcp joy

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@deidrereads N03263 is one of 35 Evans files that were never edited or put in final form. Note path: Evans_unedited/xml_dregs/N03263.xml

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@deidrereads The "$" convention (e.g. $=illeg char; $word$ = illeg word &c) is what keyers used. Change to gap tags app missed this time.

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@true_mxp @cynicalgrrl I take that back. g elements not usable in attribute values. @rahtz may have flattened it there or used PUA. #EEBOTCP

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@true_mxp @cynicalgrrl Of course. That's why they're there :)

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@true_mxp @cynicalgrrl (in P4 XML output, which prioritizes display, converted to U+2021 U+0336; in P5 rendered as TEI g element.) #EEBOTCP

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@true_mxp @cynicalgrrl Found it in 3 books, always as a note marker. Full results and some examples here: https://t.co/a5htkBrr5r #EEBOTCP

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@cynicalgrrl @true_mxp I'll look. Likely we found it (or sth we chose to identify as 'triple dagger') in just one book. As a note marker?

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@heatherfro This is what the TCP keyers did, FBOW: https://t.co/6Q3zxZkjJz EEBO is all from film (still). Most scans 1-bit, some grayscale.

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@heatherfro @Rwelzenb @OxfordEEBOTCP Problem of common ids between TCP instances. TCP ID eg A12345 works everywhere except PQ site #EEBOTCP

[Paul Schaffner @pfs]

@heatherfro @Rwelzenb @OxfordEEBOTCP Otherwise I say cite info of print book & then add date and perm URL, specify text/image/both #EEBOTCP