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EEBO-TCP: Measuring Impact and Making
ChangesJudith Siefring
Digital Editor, Bodleian Libraries
Monday 8 July 2013
What is EEBO-TCP?
EEBO-TCP creates XML-encoded,searchable editions of books printedin England or in English in the period1473-1700.
The TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Oxford and Michigan and the commercial publisher ProQuest.
The main interface is ProQuest’s EEBO:http://eebo.chadwyck.com
Using TIDSRQuantitative•analytics, •bibliometrics, •Web 2.0 analysis, •in-depth online user survey
Qualitative
•three focus groups•a conference•individual interviews•email discussion
Siefring, Judith and Meyer, Eric T., Sustaining the EEBO-TCP Corpus in Transition:Report on the TIDSR Benchmarking Study (2013). London: JISC, March 2013. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2236202 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2236202
EEBO-TCP profile, user needs, potential for future development, identifying strands of work, applying for additional funding
How to improve sustainability? Preservation of data set Ongoing support for project personnel Improve awareness of resource amongst the user
community Meet needs/desires of users Make the data easily available in multiple formats Provide easily accessible documentation and
metadata Offer user and teaching guides Make citation easy Develop relationships with other projects Develop funding bids to improve or enhance the
corpus
Awareness of other resources
Similar sites
EEBO
ECCO
British History Online
Literature Online
Internet Shakespeare Editions
JISC Historic Books
Brown U. Women Writers
Other sites
Google Books
Internet Archive
Project Gutenberg
HathiTrust
Gallica
Europeana
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22%
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Use regularly Use on occasion Do not use Never heard of it
TCP profile
Knew that the full texts were created separately, but didn’t know by whom
Had heard of EEBO-TCP but didn’t know what it does
Hadn’t heard of EEBO-TCP
Had heard of EEBO-TCP and knew what it does
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
8.1%
14.0%
27.3%
50.6%
Survey respondents who said they had used EEBO texts (either by themselves or in conjunction with images) at least occasionally were asked if, before completing the survey, they had heard of EEBO-TCP, and whether they were aware that EEBO-TCP creates the full texts available on the main EEBO site:
Improving our profile February: 438
tweets/1321followers July: 522 tweets/1748
followers
Guest blog posts
Outreach events, e.g. conferences Developing relationships and
collaborations
What do users want? Better quality transcriptions Completeness/comprehensiveness of
coverage Links to other resources e.g. ESTC Easily accessible texts in multiple
formats Free open access to images and text Richer tagging
Better quality transcriptions
Textual Genomics, a proposal led by Sussex University, currently under consideration by the AHRC’s Digital Transformations funding strand
Crowdsourcing corrections to the EEBO-TCP data
Encoding and metadata
P5 compliance
Sebastian Rahtz and James Cummings, “Kicking and Screaming: Challenges and advantages of bringing TCP texts into line with the Text Encoding Initiative”. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3Af9667884-220b-4ec9-bb2f-c79044302399
Metadata in TEI header format Shelfmark data? We hope so! Links to the ESTC records? Yes.
Easy access in multiple formats
An EEBO-TCP hub offering easy-to-download texts in multiple formats: plain text, ePub, XML, etc.
Oxford Text Archive, http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/
Extendable; multiple versions from multiple sources
Digital citation
Publicizing the issue. Making citation easy. Incentivizing citation. Dating digital items. Interdisciplinary knowledge exchange. Respected institutions leading change.
Make URLs as short as possible and, if possible, human-decodable. Include a clear link to a citation from the main page of a text, image, etc. Encourage/guide users always to give a date of access whenever they cite a digital resource, and include such a date in
automatically generated citations. Provide easily accessible editorial documentation at the point of accessing texts and images (rather than solely on project
– descriptive websites). Digital content creators should consider how best to raise and develop the scholarly reputation of their resource, and
promote that resource accordingly. Where content (such as, from 2015, EEBO-TCP Phase One texts) is in the public domain and not tied to one point of
access, citation information should be tied to individual texts (perhaps by including a citation in the TEI header, if possible).
Teaching Students
Researchers
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8%
8%
42%
45%
15%
6%
25%
34%
9%
8%
Online version only Print + URL Print + [online] (no URL)
How do (or would) you cite materials from EEBO-TCP?
General solutions
DocumentationEditorial guidelinesUser guidesPublicity materials
Who to target?
Where did you first hear about EEBO?
•I originally used the microfilms. :) •probably as a trial of the uni library, maybe plugged by faculty members •From a lecturer, when I was a student •From a teacher •Mentioned in an undergraduate lecture. •Tutor •In my time as a graduate student, by a professor's recommendation. •When researching my ancestor's George Thomason Collection •From a professor during undergraduate studies •Mentioned by a prof •From teachers when I was a postgraduate student •From a graduate supervisor •Contributor •Folger Shakespeare Library •Probably from hearing lecturers mention it during my undergraduate study. •In a grad course for an assignment I had to do •Mentioned in a postgrad course description.
Other Web tutorials
By attending training sessions Reading research papers that have used them
Being shown uses in specific research Help pages and documentation
Learning about them from peersExploring them yourself
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1.0%13.5%
20.7%22.6%23.6%
30.3%48.6%
90.9%How do you prefer to learn about digital resources?
Seeing it mentioned in publicationFrom a student
Stumbling across itIn a press release
Professional associationSearch engine such as Google
At a conference or presentationOther
I don’t rememberListing of library resources
From a colleague
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0.5%0.5%1.1%1.6%1.6%
2.7%4.4%
9.8%14.2%
21.9%41.5%
Further work
Impact and public engagement Engaging the public Measuring wider impact Online cultural heritage: how can the
Bodleian best reach a general audience?
Developing connections
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eebotcp/conferences/conference-eebo-tcp-2013/
Early Modern Texts: Digital Methods and Methodologies, 16-17 September 2013University of Oxford
Contact
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eebotcp/SECT
@OxfordEEBOTCP
