18thconnect

02/07/2017

18thConnect and the IDHMC will be back for ASECS 2017 workshop:

"Liberate the Text! Creating Digital Editions and Data Mining"

As of this year, we're offering our colleagues the opportunity to join the workshop remotely via webinar.

For more information about registration, the workshop agenda, and more, see our newly revamped workshop site by clicking below.

We hope to see you in Minneapolis this March!

(IDHMC) will be hosting a workshop at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (ASECS) in Spring 2017.

08/25/2016

Do you use 18thConnect in the classroom? Do you use 18thConnect for research? Do you want to?

We hope you'll think about submitting proposals to our ASECS sessions this year!

CFP: 18thConnect ASECS Sessions SESSION 1: 18thConnect in the Classroom: Pedagogy Roundtable FORMAT: Roundtable Since 18thConnect was developed in 2010, the online community and search portal has allowed for saved searches, annotation and discussion of texts, the creation of exhibits, and w...

02/17/2016

Thanks for the patience while we completed some needed maintenance, users. Our TypeWright tool is back!

02/17/2016

Our TypeWright tool will be down momentarily this morning while we conduct some needed maintenance. TypeWright will be back shortly.

In the meantime, 18thConnect.org will be available. Please tag, collect, and comment on TypeWright texts to correct in the near future!

11/17/2015

We're experiencing some issues with TypeWright this afternoon, and we'll likely be continuing to experience them well into the night. Our extreme apologies for the inconvenience, and please bear with us as we solve the issue.

11/04/2015

TypeWright users! We need your help!

When correcting documents in TypeWright, do you use the "Insert Above" and/or "Insert Below" buttons? If so, please comment here or vote in our Twitter poll.

This will help us tremendously. Not sure which buttons we're talking about? Let us know that too!

https://twitter.com/18thConnect/status/662049594516205569

“TypeWright users! We need your help! Do you use the "Insert Above" and "Insert Below" buttons when correcting docs?”

11/04/2015

An important post, on the heels of , by the Advanced Research Consortium's Associate Director of Technology on the ESTC21 project:

"The ESTC21’s social functionality offers the potential for the community of ESTC users to grow a digital collection organically...."

http://www.carlstahmer.com/2015/11/estc-antidote-to-eebogate/

This post is in response to a flurry of Twitter and blogging activity surrounding (Proquests now retracted announcement that access to Early English Books Online (EEBO) [1]. would no longer be made available to users through membership in scholarly societies and organizations.) The specifi…

11/02/2015

"The Business of Digital Humanities: Capitalism and Enlightenment," authored by our 18thConnect Director and our Project Manager, describes one of the missions of our ARC organization: to seek active partnerships with vendors.

"Research is a luxury, one we cannot afford to lose."

The Business of Digital Humanities: Capitalism and Enlightenment

10/13/2015

The launch of BigDIVA.org is this week at NCSU! BigDIVA includes all data aggregated by 18thConnect, alongside all ARC node data.

Digital humanities scholars are launching a powerful new system to help researchers more quickly and accurately sift through hundreds of thousands of archives and articles related to materials dating from 450 A.D. to the 20th century.

10/05/2015

18thConnect.org is back! Thank you for your patience while we sorted out some issues and pushed new features. We hope to make some excellent announcements in the coming days and weeks to showcase these new features!

10/05/2015

18thConnect will be down momentarily while we fix some user-reported issues and add a few new features. Pardon our dust, and we'll be back soon!

Please report any concerns or questions to [email protected]