Acknowledgments
This site was originally published in 2012 and revised in 2021. The project was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Newberry Library's Scholl Center for American History and Culture provided a home for the project, with support of the Dr. Scholl Foundation. Douglas Knox served as project director through November 2011. Staff of the Chicago Metro History Education Center, particularly Lisa Oppenheim, were strong early advocates of this project, as was Toby Higbie when he led the Scholl Center. Glenn Humphreys of the Chicago Public Library and Alice Schreyer and Dan Meyer of the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center provided early encouragement. Jennifer Fry contributed to planning during an internship.
Lizabeth Cohen, Kathleen Neils Conzen, Alice Fahs, Donna Gabaccia, Daniel Greene, James Grossman, and Jan Reiff provided scholarly support for the project. James Grossman, Daniel Greene, and Hjordis Halvorson ensured the project had indispensable institutional support.
The approach to markup makes relatively simple use of version P5 of the TEI Guidelines. This project benefited from the decades of experience of the TEI community in thinking about representational issues and workflows in digital projects concerned with the scholarly use of textual evidence. Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman of Brown University taught an advanced workshop in text encoding that was well timed to help the project, and Syd, Julia, and Laura Mandell helped especially to think through questions about how to model the subject codes and other metadata. Ed Fishwick helped identify and correct incomplete transcriptions with a careful eye. During a productive internship late in the project Dan Tracy contributed a TEI transcription of the original code book instructing the editors in the selection of material.
Additional thanks are due to Michael Ang, Brodie Austin, James Burke, Chris Cantwell, Ginger Frere, Crystal Johnson, Betsy Kruger, Chris Lamberti, Josh Lupkin, Matt Rutherford, Jack Simpson, Cheryl Tunstill, Frank Valadez, and Angela Waarala.
The Newberry’s Digital Initiatives and Services department developed the 2021 site revision. Nick White rebuilt the database & interface. Data files are available for download at GitHub.
Contextual content on this site is made available under a Creative Commons Public Domain license. All data and images from the Foreign Language Press Survey are in the public domain with No Copyright restrictions.
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