| PW-50983-12 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of California, Santa Barbara | English Broadside Ballads Archive: Crawford Ballads | 7/1/2012 - 6/30/2015 | $280,000.00 | Patricia | | Fumerton | | | | University of California, Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara | CA | 93106-0001 | USA | 2012 | British Literature | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 280000 | 0 | 280000 | 0 | The digitization and incorporation into an electronic archive of images of up to 1,754 English broadside ballads from the 17th century, as well as illustrative woodcuts, facsimile transcriptions, contextual essays, and audio files of sung versions of the ballads.
The University of California-Santa Barbara requests critical funding to launch an important fourth stage of its electronic English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) and mount online the seventeenth-century ballads, primarily the Crawford collection, held by the National Library of Scotland--approx. 1,754 works. The NLS has granted UCSB unprecedented permission to add its ballad holdings to EBBA. The expanded archive will provide high-quality digital facsimiles as well as "facsimile transcriptions," which preserve the ballads’ original "look," with all their ornament, while transcribing the original font into easily readable roman type. In addition, we will offer deep cataloguing, TEI/XML and MARC records, song recordings, informative essays, and an enhanced search engine. An expanded EBBA will open up new ways of understanding early modern popular culture, literature, art, and music as well as the history of ballad collecting. |