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ninch-announce: Blake Archive update

Blake Archive update

David Green (david@ninch.org)
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:05:15 -0500 

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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:05:15 -0500
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From: david@ninch.org (David Green)
Subject: Blake Archive update


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
December 16, 1997


                 THE WILLIAM BLAKE ARCHIVE UPDATE:
             Research and Development phase completed
               <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/>



From:          Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 458.
      Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
              <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
             <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

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        Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:45:13 -0500 (EST)
        From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu>
        Subject: Blake Archive update

The editors of the William Blake Archive -- Morris Eaves,
Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi -- are pleased to announce
that the main research and development phase of the project has
now been completed. At the present moment, the Archive contains
three copies of "The Book of Thel" (copies F, H, and
O) and two copies of "Visions of the Daughters of
Albion" (copies C and J); all of these works are fully
searchable for both text and images, and all are supported by
the unique Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our
previous updates.  At this point we can now move rapidly into a
full-time production schedule, adding new illuminated books to
the Archive without pausing to address major technical issues.
Because we expect that they will be widely used in the
classroom, the first books to be added -- at or near the start
of the spring semester -- will be "The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell," (copy D) and "Songs of Innocence and of
Experience" (copy Z). Others will then follow, with the
goal of making at least one copy of each of Blake's illuminated
books available by summer. In addition, work continues on the
SGML edition of David V.  Erdman's "Complete Poetry and
Prose of William Blake," which we anticipate releasing
sometime in the spring semester.

Those of you who have been following our progress over the past
two years will understand that we've reached a much-anticipated
milestone.  Thank you for your patience and continued interest
in the Blake Archive.

The William Blake Archive is located at:

        http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/

Please forward this announcement as appropriate.

Matthew Kirschenbaum, Project Manager
The William Blake Archive
Edited by Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi
blake@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
University of Virginia, Charlottesville

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