0.5 Non-consuming relevance: “the grub street project”  (Page 9/9)

18thConnect would like to ask ASECS and the NACBS to issue a “My18thConnect” page, based on the MyNINES page, that will bring eighteenth-century specialists into the business of text correction. 18thConnect will allow all members of ASECS and NACBS to search the texts we have generated, texts that will be in the 99 percent clean range (per Peter Bajcsy), but only those members whose institutions subscribe will get access to the whole texts corresponding to the bibliographic data that is returned by their full-text search. Mellon is beginning to negotiate with Gale, Readex, and Proquest to let all eightenth-century scholars have access to all those texts, regardless of whether their institutions subscribe. But in the meantime, 18thConnect can enlist those scholars in correcting the OCR via the Annolex interface. As a reward to those scholars—in addition to letters by a board of respected scholars describing their work—we hope to negotiate with Gale so that 18thConnect can provide those who perform such corrections access to the full-text images of the text they have corrected and the opportunity to use the plain text files of such a text to create a digital scholarly edition, under the guidance of 18thConnect. All the enriched data can go back to Gale Cengage in return, but it will also go forward into a data-mining system structured by the Meandre workbench (SEASR) and minimally TEI-encoded using TEI-A (analytics) developed by Brian Pytlik Zillig of Nebraska Center for Digital Humanities for the MONK project. On the My18thConnect page, users will be able to perform data-mining as well and keep their results whether they can get access to the full texts or not.

Table of those whom we would like to involve in development and use, their interactions coordinated by the 18thConnect Office at Miami