{"id":490,"date":"2014-07-11T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2014-07-11T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:35:53","slug":"early-reading-database-announced-at-johns-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Early Reading Database announced at Johns Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news from Johns Hopkins&#8217;s Sheridan Library in cooperation with Princeton University Library and University College London\u2019s Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL)\u00a0 in this <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.jhu.edu\/2014\/07\/10\/exploring-the-archaeology-of-reading\/\">press release<\/a> about a database of early reading, to be called &#8220;Exploring the Archeology of Reading.&#8221; This project is potentially big:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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. &#8230;. 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shared-canvas.org\/\">Shared Canvas<\/a> viewer to maximize user interaction with these complex, composite early modern texts through a publicly available website.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news from Johns Hopkins&#8217;s Sheridan Library in cooperation with Princeton University Library and University College London\u2019s Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL)\u00a0 in this press release about a database of early reading, to be called &#8220;Exploring the Archeology of Reading.&#8221; This project is potentially big: By treating marginal annotations as large sets of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=490\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Early Reading Database announced at Johns Hopkins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}