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Unlocking An Early Modern Account Book
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Unlocking An Early Modern Account Book

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Paul Dingman

The answer to last week’s Crocodile mystery is, as some of you guessed, £135 15s 0d (or 135 pounds, 15 shillings). This amount is a snippet of one entry made on a page in Folger MS V.b.308, the account book of…

Where is that book? Tracing copies imaged for EEBO
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Where is that book? Tracing copies imaged for EEBO

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Meaghan J. Brown

How do you find a book? There are times when not just any copy will do, when you need to locate one exact copy of a book with a certain history. While gathering information for the Folger’s Digital Anthology of…

Documents, in microcosm
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Documents, in microcosm

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Abbie Weinberg

I have been part of the team that has been working to create Shakespeare Documented, which launched on January 20, 2016. In the last few weeks before launch, one of my main duties became the creation the thumbnail image for…

Shakespeare Documented, coming soon
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Shakespeare Documented, coming soon

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Heather Wolfe

It is almost 2016! For the Folger Shakespeare Library, that means we are about to kick off The Wonder of Will, 400 Years of Shakespeare, and one of the first initiatives we have planned as part of our year-long commemoration is Shakespeare Documented.…

EMMO announces the launch of Shakespeare's World
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EMMO announces the launch of Shakespeare's World

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Paul Dingman Sarah Powell

There are thousands of manuscripts sitting quietly amongst the Folger’s ever-growing collection which Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) aims to transcribe. Earlier this year EMMO collaborated with Zooniverse, a hugely successful online crowd-sourcing platform, so that people all over the…

Folger Tooltips: Making a spreadsheet from raw Hamnet data
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Folger Tooltips: Making a spreadsheet from raw Hamnet data

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Erin Blake

Hamnet, the Folger’s online catalog, is more than just a searchable inventory of printed books, manuscripts, engravings, paintings, and other resources in the collection. It is also a giant data set, freely available for machine analysis. But there’s a catch: library catalog data is encoded…

State Papers Online: tips and tricks, part 2
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State Papers Online: tips and tricks, part 2

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Abbie Weinberg

In my first post on the State Papers Online, I discussed how to search the database for a document that you already had some sort of reference to, whether that was the document/entry number, or a page number. In this…

Tagging manuscripts: how much is too much?
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Tagging manuscripts: how much is too much?

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Paul Dingman

When it comes to the subject of tagging or encoding manuscript transcriptions in XML (extensible markup language) for Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO), two important questions are how much should we tag and when should we do it. With thousands…

State Papers Online: tips and tricks, part 1
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State Papers Online: tips and tricks, part 1

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Abbie Weinberg

The Calendar of State Papers is a well-known historical resource for early modernists across a variety of disciplines. This “calendar,” or register, documents the workings of the British government during the reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts, 1509–1714. For decades,…

Golden quills and paleography skills
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Golden quills and paleography skills

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Paul Dingman

In my last post about EMMO’s progress, I briefly mentioned Practical Paleography or “PracPaleo,” our intentionally relaxed, no-registration-required introduction to transcribing secretary hand for readers and staff at the Folger Shakespeare Library. This time around, I thought it would be…

EMMO: advancing and expanding
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EMMO: advancing and expanding

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Paul Dingman

During the last few months, the Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) project has been gathering strength and reaching farther both inside the Folger Shakespeare Library and outside to individuals and organizations. These actions have translated into the passing of several…

Folger Tooltips: Getting raw Hamnet data
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Folger Tooltips: Getting raw Hamnet data

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Erin Blake

Non-librarians out there, have you ever clicked the “MARC View” or “Staff view” link in an online catalog record? In Hamnet, the Folger’s online catalog, it’s the third choice at the top of each record. I vividly remember the first time I did.…

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