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Enter Miranda: the Folger's new digital platform
Miranda illustrated by Robert Anning Bell
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Enter Miranda: the Folger's new digital platform

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Meaghan J. Brown

“Admired Miranda! Indeed the top of admiration, worth What’s dearest to the world!” William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (3.1.47-50) Miranda’s home page offers a chance to search by format, genre, date ranges, or language. The Folger Shakespeare Library is thrilled to…

Report from the field: network analysis
Max Schich presenting at the EMDA institute
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Report from the field: network analysis

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Ruth Ahnert

A guest post by Dr. Ruth Ahnert In July 2017 the Folger Institute welcomed participants and faculty to the third of its Early Modern Digital Agendas (EMDA) gatherings—an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. The EMDA institutes…

A New Era: The Folger Now Uses Aeon!
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A New Era: The Folger Now Uses Aeon!

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Rachel B. Dankert

Arrive at the Folger and grab a locker. Check in at the Registrar desk. Find that perfect spot in the Reading Room—not too cold, with just the right amount of light. Say hello to the wonderful staff and pick up…

The EMMO Conference on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
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The EMMO Conference on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

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Paul Dingman Sarah Powell

On May 18th & 19th, 2017, EMMO held the Early Modern Manuscripts Online: New Directions in Teaching and Research conference at the Folger, in collaboration with the Folger Institute. This conference was a culmination of the project’s initial three-year phase, funded by a…

New resources, old plays: expanding A Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama
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New resources, old plays: expanding A Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama

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Elizabeth Williamson Meaghan J. Brown

The Folger’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama (EMED) is delighted to announce the release of twenty early modern plays, freely available to read and download. EMED offers you the chance to explore the vibrant scene of professional theater…

Announcing EMMO's Beta Launch
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Announcing EMMO's Beta Launch

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Heather Wolfe Paul Dingman Sarah Powell

To kick off the new year at Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO), the EMMO team (Paul Dingman, Mike Poston, Sarah Powell, Caitlin Rizzo & Heather Wolfe, with additional thanks to Rebecca Niles) is thrilled to announce the launch of our…

A Preview of What the New EMMO Website Will Offer
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A Preview of What the New EMMO Website Will Offer

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Paul Dingman

Manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are going digital with added features for users! The launch of a beta website for Early Modern Manuscripts Online next month will provide encoded transcriptions to accompany manuscript images and metadata. The number of transcriptions…

Folger Tooltips: Making the most of Hamnet's "Keyword Anywhere" search box
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Folger Tooltips: Making the most of Hamnet's "Keyword Anywhere" search box

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Erin Blake

I used to hate Hamnet’s one-box “Basic Search”—the landing page you get when you click the “Search” tab at http://hamnet.folger.edu—but two things happened last Thursday to change this. What caused the change of heart? Read on. First, the Basic Search now defaults to “Keyword…

Introducing A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama
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Introducing A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama

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Elizabeth Williamson Meaghan J. Brown

You know your Shakespeare, but who else was writing for the early modern stage? What did drama look like between 1576 to 1642? How long did plays take to reach print? What playing companies appeared on the title page? Who…

Honing transcriptions with algorithms and acumen
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Honing transcriptions with algorithms and acumen

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Paul Dingman

A question I often hear from paleographers who contribute transcriptions to Early Modern Manuscripts Online (or EMMO) is: What are you going to do with all these transcriptions? It’s a good question—central to the whole project, actually—but it’s also a complicated one. The…

What’s in a genre? Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies, and the Folger’s Digital Anthology
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What’s in a genre? Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies, and the Folger’s Digital Anthology

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Meaghan J. Brown

  Shakespeare’s plays are organized in the First Folio into three now familiar genre categories: Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories. Later scholars added a fourth, describing certain late plays like The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale that contain elements of both…

Early Modern Edit-a-Thon
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Early Modern Edit-a-Thon

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Sarah Hovde

Have you noticed any new articles on Wikipedia lately? An average of 700-800 are added to the English-language Wikipedia each day. This is a rough average based on Wikipedia’s own calculations; you can read more about them on their Size…

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