Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 401.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 06:43:37 +0000
From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: blake archive: UK mirror
The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the Archive's first
mirror site. Hosted at Oxford University in Oxford, England, the
mirror is available at www.blakearchive.org.uk. The Archive averages
1,600+ visits per day, and many of these "visits" originate from
British domains. Intended to improve access speed for our British
and European users, the mirror can be accessed from our welcome and
index pages as well as at the URL listed above. All Archive
materials are available at both sites.
The Humanities Computing Unit (HCU), a division of the Oxford
University Computing Services (OUCS), hosts this mirror. The Blake
mirror is the second such partnership between the Institute for
Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and the HCU. The
Archive joins a growing list of Web-based humanities research
projects that target and reach a global audience. A second Blake
mirror in the Pacific is also in the works.
We would like to thank Conall O'Brien (Systems Administrator, Network
Systems Management Service, OUCS), Kirk Hastings (Lead
Programmer/Analyst, IATH), and Andrea Laue (Project Manager, William
Blake Archive) for their efforts on this project. In addition, Lou
Burnard (Manager, HCU) and John Unsworth (Director, IATH) should be
recognized for their support.
As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no
access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is
made possible through the continuing support of the Institute for
Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia,
by a major grant from the Preservation and Access Division of the
National Endowment for the Humanities, and by the cooperation of the
international array of libraries and museums that have generously
given us permission to represent works from their collections in the
Archive.
At present the Archive contains 41 copies of 18 of Blake's 19
illuminated books, plus a fully SGML-encoded electronic edition of
David. V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake_. In
the near future we expect to release a much-anticipated electronic
edition of _Jerusalem_, copy E; the publication of Blake's longest (and
perhaps most spectacular) work will render the Archive's illuminated
collection complete, with at least one copy of every work and
multiple copies of most. At that point, in addition to continuing to
publish additional copies of the works in illuminated printing, we
will begin to incorporate Blake's accomplishments in other media
(paintings, drawings, commercial and original engravings, and
manuscripts). By spring we also plan to publish collection handlists
for each of the Archive's contributing institutions. Future
supplementary materials include a biography and glossary as well as
improved, searchable versions of our bibliographies.
Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, technical editor
The William Blake Archive
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