The Transcription Challenge Framework (TCF) is a sustainable scholarly model organized to support and promote collaborative transcription of digitized handwritten materials, including manuscripts from all time periods. TCF leadership issues an annual call for projects to sponsor two transcription events per year, supervised by our Advisory Board and supported by our tech partners, FromThePage. Transcription events follow the TCF workflow, and all project data is catalogued and preserved at partner repositories for long term access, citation, and preservation. Come explore texts with us, build scholarly networks, and share your love of transcription!

The Transcription Challenge Framework (TCF) is a sustainable scholarly model organized to support and promote collaborative transcription of digitized handwritten materials, including manuscripts from all time periods. TCF leadership issues an annual call for projects to sponsor two transcription events per year, supervised by our Advisory Board and supported by our tech partners, FromThePage. Transcription events follow the TCF workflow, and all project data is catalogued and preserved at partner repositories for long term access, citation, and preservation. Come explore texts with us, build scholarly networks, and share your love of transcription!

The project aims to demonstrate, among the advantages of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) for manuscripts, how the annotation level is a fundamental innovation for the study of contents: transcriptions, comments, comparative analysis of texts and images.

Digital Edition of the Settings of Torquato Tasso's Poetry, c. 1570–1640

The Taiwan Shakespeare Database is an open-access online archive of Taiwan’s Shakespearean productions with both English and Chinese interfaces. It casts theatre works in historical and cultural context, presenting not only streaming video of performances with bilingual subtitles but also production background, interviews, publicity materials, designs, photos, news coverage, reviews, essays, and more. Data is annotated in English and Chinese: each production comes with a concise introduction and related materials are given a brief abstract too.

The Database constitutes a useful tool for researchers, teachers, and students alike. The Database is an ongoing project. Application tools for teaching and research are also being developed.

SYMBOLA is a database and digital library that gathers, studies and offers the interested public currencies or historical companies from a diversity of sources (not only textual), with a wide chronological and geographical range. They are currencies or companies (personal emblems) used by kings, knights and ladies, ecclesiastics, academics, printers, etc. from the beginnings of the genre (at the end of the Late Middle Ages) until the end of the 17th century.

The Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool is an online interactive resource to assist users in the learning of the deciphering and reading of manuscripts written in Spanish during the early modern period, roughly from the late 15th to the 18th century.

Sketch Engine is the ultimate tool to explore how language works. Its algorithms analyze authentic texts of billions of words (text corpora) to identify instantly what is typical in language and what is rare, unusual or emerging usage. It is also designed for text analysis or text mining applications.

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a digital reconstruction of the early modern social network that scholars and students from all over the world can collaboratively expand, revise, curate, and critique. Unlike published prose, Six Degrees is extensible, collaborative, and interoperable: extensible in that people and associations can always be added, modified, developed, or, removed; collaborative in that it synthesizes the work of many scholars; interoperable in that new work on the network is put into immediate relation to previously studied relationships.

Make beautiful interactive timelines.

Since 2000, the STCV project is developing a retrospective bibliography of publications from Flanders before 1801

Shakespeare's Words was published in 2002 by Penguin Books. Although it was one of the largest books Penguin had ever published (almost 700 pages), we were unable to include in it more than a small set of references to the various plays and poems in which the words are found. As the book became known, and increasingly used, we therefore began to think of an online website in which we could include every instance of a word and which would help users to search through the database easily.

The Folger Shakespeare brings you the complete works of one of world’s greatest playwrights and poets. Whether you’re a Shakespeare lover, student, teacher, or scholar, the Folger Shakespeare is a trusted resource for Shakespeare’s plays and poems and for information about his life and world. We offer the plays and poems in a variety of formats so that you can choose how you would like to engage with Shakespeare’s words.

The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. A cross-Atlantic collaboration has also produced an interactive interface for the detailed study of these geographically distant quartos, with full functionality for all thirty-two quarto copies of Hamlet held by participating institutions.

Shakespeare & the Players is an online exhibition and scholarly resource of nearly 1,000 postcards featuring many famous English and American actors who performed Shakespeare’s plays for late Victorian and Edwardian audiences.

The Shakespeare Census attempts to locate and describe all extant copies of all editions of Shakespeare’s works through 1700. We include all items attributed to Shakespeare in print during the period, but not those attributed to him only by modern scholarship. We exclude the Restoration adaptations. Copies attested earlier but currently missing are not included. 

This is one of the first Chinese maps to reach Europe. It came into the Library in 1659 from the estate of the London lawyer John Selden, who must have acquired it by 1653 at the latest, as in a codicil to his will dated that year he describes the Map and an accompanying compass as having been “taken both by an englishe comander”. 

Scripto brings the power of MediaWiki to your Omeka sites. Designed to allow members of the public to transcribe a range of different kinds of files, Scripto will increase your content’s findability while building your user community through active engagement.