Announcements

A new version of the Colonial Despatches site, edition 2.2, was published on 2nd December 2020, including the following new features:

• Added more organizations to index as well as some descriptions (currently 64 organizations).
• Tagged majority of organizations in the database (12761).
• Added a few hundred more abstracts.
• All places with a known location has a map.
• The initial version of the Indigenous glossary of terms has been completed.
• Fixed a couple encoding bugs (missing divs in transcribed enclosures, unwanted text edits).
• Removed titles and roles from Despatch citations as per request from Principal Investigator.
• "Mentions of [entity] in the documents" in the indexes are now sorted by date sent and date received when available.

This is the third completely static version of the site, in compliance with the Project Endings Principles for Digital Longevity.

Edition 3.6 of Dr. Kim Blank's widely-admired site Mapping Keats's Progress has been released.

Dr. Kim Blank's site Mapping Keats's Progress: a Critical Chronology, which "has received plaudits and unsolicited praise from respected colleagues," (Suzie Grogan) has progressed to edition 3.5. This project is a collaboration with HCMC and is a fully Endings-compliant project.

Martin Holmes and Joey Takeda have released the first production version of their staticSearch tool, one of the key products from Project Endings.

A new edition of the Map of Early Modern London site, edition 6.5, was published on 15th September 2020. This is the first edition to include a fully-tagged transcription of the 1598 edition of John Stow's A Survey of London.

Many other changes are listed in the Release Notes.