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EEBO (Early English Books Online)
The EEBO version 1 corpus contains more than 25 000 English texts from the period 1475–1700, which were digitalized by the Text Creation Partnership organization during Phase 1 of the Early English Books Online project; a detailed description of the digitalization process is available here. Overall size of the EEBO v1 corpus is 730 million running words.
The EEBO version 2 corpus is composed of the 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 and the 28,462 texts created during Phase 2 of the EEBO-TCP Partnership. The texts have been processed to facilitate linguistic research by the EarlyPrint collaborative effort, namely they have been tokenized, regularized, lemmatized and part of speech tagged. Overall size of the EEBO v2 corpus is 1,300 million running words. Both the addition of the Phase 2 texts as well as the linguistic processing and annotation constitute the update over EEBO v1.
Metadata and structuring of texts were treated for use in the KonText interface in such a way that their basic structural information was preserved (text highlights, its division etc.) including links to the on-line version. The meanings of the individual structures and their attributes are based on the TEI P5, and are also described in the following chart:
| structure | attribute | description |
|---|---|---|
<doc> | title | document title |
<doc> | author | document author |
<doc> | year | publication year (may be an interval) |
<doc> | decade | decade containing the publication year |
<doc> | period | period containing the publication year |
<doc> | biblio | bibliographic information |
<doc> | webSource | full text link in HTML format |
<doc> | ePubSource | full text link in ePUB format |
<doc> | id | document identifier |
<div> | type | part of text and its type |
<head> | heading | |
<p> | paragraph | |
<hi> | rend | highlight and type (typefaces etc.) |
<pb> | facs | link to a page containing a scan (limited access) |
<lg> | verse | |
<l> | line | |
<sp> | utterance (esp. in plays) | |
<speaker> | speaker (esp. in plays) | |
<stage> | stage note (esp. in plays) | |
<list> | list | |
<label> | list label | |
<item> | list item | |
<abbr> | abbreviation | |
<q> | citation | |
<bibl> | bibliographic citation |
Wiki course
For a basic overview of how to use the EEBO version 1 corpus and how to input the data into the search interface check our wiki-course in eight lessons:
How to cite
EEBO: Early English Books Online, version 1. Ústav Českého národního korpusu FF UK, Prague 2014. Available from WWW: http://www.korpus.cz
EEBO: Early English Books Online, version 2, 14. 3. 2025. Ústav Českého národního korpusu FF UK, Prague 2025. Available from WWW: http://www.korpus.cz
