| PW-258977-18 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of California, Santa Barbara | EBBA and the British Library: Making Popular Ballads of the Past more Present | 5/1/2018 - 9/30/2021 | $315,000.00 | Patricia | | Fumerton | | | | University of California, Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara | CA | 93106-0001 | USA | 2018 | British Literature | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 315000 | 0 | 230595.17 | 0 | The continued development of the English Broadside
Ballad Archive (EBBA) with the addition of 1,300 rare, pre-1701 printed ballads
held at the British Library. In
addition, the project would catalog 905 tune titles and approximately 18,250
woodcut impressions, as well as enhance access to the existing ballad
collection by providing faceted searching and other features to improve the
user experience.
The Univ. of California-Santa Barbara requests critical funding to launch its penultimate, 7th phase of the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), significantly expanding the archive with 1,300 rare ballads from the British Library, many unique. As always, EBBA will provide high-quality color facsimiles, text transcriptions, deep cataloging in TEI/XML/MARC, recordings, and informative essays. In this phase, we will also enhance our interface with 1) configurable, faceted searches; 2) user controls and MEI encoding of tune recordings and their transcriptions; and 3) sophisticated human cataloging of the ballads' illustrative woodcuts, matched by our existing image-association software. Additionally, we will develop a new section to support K-12 and undergraduate pedagogy, with class plans and interactive tools. EBBA will in the process widen access to these crucial cultural artifacts so that scholars, students and the general public can engage with them as text, data, art, and song. |