On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:39, Al Magary al@magary.com wrote:
Can anyone report on the status of Oxford's Holinshed Project? The website (http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/) is still up, the parallel texts and comparator are functioning, but there's been no news posted since September 2009 and the project contact person doesn't reply. OUP was apparently committed to publishing a handbook on the chronicles and was considering a 15-volume edition, but the press website is silent on Holinshed ("Did you mean to search for: hollingshead?"). Did funding disappear altogether?
Hi Al, (et al.)
I did some of the underlying technical work on the project (helping to enable the comparisons between the editions see http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jamesc/2009/09/04/tei-comparator/), though I'm not involved the website itself. (Which for the record doesn't involve the TEI-Comparator software, only its output which provides the links between the two texts.) The versions of the texts which are available were primarily completed to enable those working on the handbook a greater ease in moving between corresponding paragraphs in the different editions. The texts available themselves shouldn't be viewed as flawless scholarly editions, more of a tool for this secondary research. The latest contact I had with the project involves the intention to provide further scholarly notes on corresponding portions of a section of the electronic texts, perhaps by next year. I believe the secondary handbook is well under way and is being edited. As I'm only tangentially involved with the project it isn't my place to comment on their funding and future plans, and I certainly don't know any of the details of their arrangements with OUP, but rest assured that last I heard the project is working hard. I believe the contact person may be away for awhile, if the enquiry is urgent I could put you in touch with other members of the project.
-James