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Full
text recognition of Bodleian Broadside Ballads (Pilot
Project)
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| General
Information
Institution
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University of Oxford |
| Department |
Bodleian
Library |
| Title
of collection |
Full
text recognition of Bodleian Broadside Ballads (Pilot Project) |
| Funded
by: |
Oxford
Digital Library Development
Fund |
Length
of
collection/project |
August 2002 - March 2003 |
| Summary |
The
Bodleian Broadside Ballads Project ran from 1995 to 1999
and provided (i) a complete online web-based catalogue
of the 30,000 ballads owned by the Library; (ii) link
to online images of the ballad sheets so that full texts
and pictures could be viewed; (iii) an iconographic index
to the pictorial images present on the ballad sheets (about
17,000 in all). Use of the ballads has grown by about
2000% since the resource was made available in September
1999. They now propose to use the ODL's Finereader software
to test its full-text recognition capabilities on the
already digitised ballad sheets in order to allow full-text
search and retrieval on the content of the ballads. If
the pilot is sucessful, the academic benefits that would
accrue from the full-scale application of OCR to the ballads
are multi-disciplinary, and apply to both teaching and
research.
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Collection
Description Subject
1
Subject 2
Subject 3
Time period
Region
Language
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Ballads
English literature
Social history
16th - 20th centuries
British Isles
English
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| Contact
Details |
Michael
Heaney
michael.heaney@ulib.ox.ac.uk
Head of Service Assessment and Planning
University Library Services
Clarendon Building
Bodleian Library
UK |
| URL |
N.A.
at present |
| Record
updated |
10/07/2002 |
