Exciting news from Johns Hopkins’s Sheridan Library in cooperation with Princeton University Library and University College London’s Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) in this press release about a database of early reading, to be called “Exploring the Archeology of Reading.” This project is potentially big:
By treating marginal annotations as large sets of data that can be mined and analyzed systematically in an electronic environment, the project team will create a corpus of important and representative annotated texts with searchable transcriptions and translations in order to begin to compare and fully analyze early modern reading by a number of dedicated Renaissance readers and annotators. …. The initial phase of the project will focus on the transcription and translation of a select number of heavily annotated books, and the allied adaptation of the open-access Shared Canvas viewer to maximize user interaction with these complex, composite early modern texts through a publicly available website.”
Congratulations to Earle Havens, Lisa Jardine, and Tony Grafton, and thanks to Mellon for its generosity in getting such a project into production. (h/t Exlibris)
