University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
Patricia Fumerton (Project Director: July 2019 to present)
PW-269273-20
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
|
[Grant products]
Totals:
$350,000 (approved)
$350,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/2020 – 5/31/2023
|
|
Early English Broadside Ballads (EBBA): Local and Global
The continued development of the English
Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), with the addition of 1,178 pre-1701 printed
ballad sheets from 101 institutions in the United States, Canada, the United
Kingdom, and Australia. In addition, the applicant would catalog 923 tune
titles and approximately 18,200 woodcut impressions and would enhance access to
the entire ballad collection through the project’s new website, EBBA 4.0.
The University of California at
Santa Barbara requests critical funding to launch the vital 8th and final stage
of its digital English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) to include the 1,178
extant but as-yet-unarchived pre-1701 English broadside ballads held at 101
institutions across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. We have reviewed the
largest collections on site at 15 institutions and have procured agreements
from all to include their 850 items in EBBA. This signals great enthusiasm that
we anticipate will extend to the remaining institutions with smaller holdings.
Keeping to EBBA standards, we will provide high-quality facsimiles and
transcriptions of the ballads, granular cataloging in TEI/XML/MARC (and now
MEI), recordings, visual aids, and informative essays. Finally, we will launch
our new website, EBBA 4.0, which will enhance user access to ballads as texts,
music, and art.
|