[Sca-cooks] Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)

[Sam Wallace]

All,

I hope this finds you doing well in the face of the ongoing crisis and that
this tidbit will help add a little joy into your days. While looking up a
word for a transcription project I am working on, I came across a book in
the currently available section of the EEBO-TCP. For those not familiar,
these are the titles that have been transcribed from the original EEBO
collection. When this was set up, it was intended to be done in phases,
with initial access being granted initially to those who took part i the
project and then later to the public. We are less than a year away from
most of the titles being made available to us:

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*As of 2019, the total number of books available in Phase II came to
34,963, with a further release of several thousand additional titles
tentatively scheduled for later in the year.  Short of an infusion of new
funding, or the adoption of a new production model, this should bring the
active work of the TCP to at least an interim conclusion.Currently,
EEBO-TCP Phase II texts are available only (with minor exceptions)  to
authorized users at partner libraries.  By contractual stipulation,
ProQuest currently has the exclusive right to distribute the EEBO-TCP Phase
II corpus to new customers, or to users outside the original Phase 2
partnership. When this window expires, the texts will be released freely to
the public. By long arrangement, this removal of restrictions will occur on
or about January 1, 2021.*
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There are quite a number of cookery resources in this collection that will
now be both available and easily searchable. It certainly gives me
something to look forward to.

REF:
https://textcreationpartnership.org/tcp-texts/eebo-tcp-early-english-books-online/

- Guillaume