Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Digitizing the 19th Century

• Features multiple content types, including: – Monographs (books) -- Manuscripts – Newspapers -- Ephemera – Photographs -- Statistics – Maps

• Will be built incrementally, over a period years

• Will be sourced internationally from regions including:

– Africa --North America – Australia and New Zealand -- Continental Europe – East & South Asia -- Latin America – The Middle East -- South Asia

• Includes content in original, non-Western languages

• Features cutting-edge technologies that serve the needs of today’s digitally native researchers and students

What is Nineteenth Century Collections Online? A Publishing Programme Which:

Programme will create a new experience that gradually differs more & more from ECCO

peter.foster@cengage.com

British Theatre, Music & Literature : High & Popular Culture

Asia & the West : Democracy & Cultural Exchange

British Politics and Society

Corvey Collection of European Literature 1790 - 1840 2012

History of Science History of Photography

Europe in Africa/Australia ?

Women ?

2013

ECCO Four NCCO archives in 2014 TBD based on Customer Input

2014

Technology & Tools: Signature Elements

“The Book of the Future”

Pall Mall Gazette 15 Sept 1869 19th Century British Library Newspapers

Glasgow Herald, September 17th 1869 (From 19thC British Library Newspapers)

“The human mind will despair, perhaps of power to deal with the illimitable mass. May we hope that when things come to such a crisis, human labour of the literary sort may be in part superseded by machinery?”

“Machinery has done wonders, and when we think of what literature is

becoming it is certainly to be wished that we could read it by machinery, and by machinery digest it.”

------The Pall Mall Gazette, 15 Sept 1869 Nineteenth Century Collections Online is built upon a state-of-the-art technology platform

that features a range of tools and features that support cutting edge digital research.

• Textual Analysis Tools • Subject Indexing • Zotero Compatible • User-Generated Tags and Annotations • Downloadable OCR Text • Selected Text from Hand-written Documents Keyed and Fielded

“The Book of the Future”

Nineteenth Century Collections Online is built upon a state-of-the-art technology platform that features a range of tools and features that support cutting edge digital research needs and outcomes.

Textual Analysis Tools • Identify and visualize patterns, trends and relationships with the unique tools that

enable researchers to explore the content in completely original ways. In addition to providing new avenues for searching, underlying data is exportable for further analysis.

Subject Indexing • Detailed subject indexing is essential to digital research, making content accessible and

exposing key elements within the data. Comprehensive subject indexing reveals important topics, people, places, and dates, identifying relationships among documents.

Additional Capture (Keying) of Manuscript Metadata and Text • Gale is keying in and fielding important data (names, places, dates, authors, etc.) from

handwritten materials, making the content searchable, more discoverable, and allowing it to be subject indexed

Technology Features and Signature Elements

Zotero Compatible • Nineteenth Century Collections Online is optimized for use with this very popular and

robust browser-based tool for collecting, citing, and organizing research sources.

User-Generated Tags and Annotations • Users can create and add their own metadata for document categorization. Tags can

be shared publicly or used privately to organize documents for particular research needs. Text can be highlighted and annotated with virtual notes for personal use.

User Accounts • Personal accounts allow users to save and edit their tags and annotations. Image Viewer • Zoom, highlight, rotate, reverse (negative image), and view individual pages in full

screen mode, with the ability to adjust brightness and contrast to create a custom view.

Downloadable OCR (Optical Character Recognition) • Download full text files of printed, OCR’d documents

Technology Features and Signature Elements

Selected text from handwritten documents are captured and fielded, enabling them to be searched (places, people, dates,

authors, etc)

User-Driven Product Design – Actual Planning Input

NCCO Advisory Board –Initial Members

•John Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History, Yale University •Jerome (“Jerry”) McGann, Professor of English, University of Virginia, Founder and Director of NINES •H.K. Kaul, Director, DELNET, India •Hilary Fraser, Geoffrey Tillotson Professor in Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck University of London, Editor of “19” •Dominique Kalifa, Professor at the University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne, Head of the Doctoral School of History and Director of the Centre for 19th Century Studies

•Tatiana Holway, Independent Scholar, Author, Researcher, and Editor, specializing in 19th-century social sciences •Joris Van Eijnatten, Professor of Cultural History, Chair of the section ‘History of Culture, Mentalities and Ideas since 1500’, Utrecht University, Department of History and Art History •Rosaly Favero Krzyzanowski, Assessora Técnica da Diretoria da Presidencia do CTA , FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil •Damon Jaggars, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services, Columbia University Libraries

NCCO Advisory Board –Roles and Responsibilities

On an ongoing basis, Advisory Board Members:

1. Advise on topics, themes, concepts, and regions to be covered by

NCCO Archives

2. Recommend institutions, associations, and scholars to provide

expert input as well as academic evaluation of concepts and

Archives

3. Consult on product features, design, and user experience

4. Identify specific sources and collections for Archives

5. Identify subject matter experts (scholars, librarians, specialists) to

provide input on editorial criteria and content selection

6. Conceptualize and commission new content, such as head notes

Approximately 1.3M pages Full Collections list is posted here Major themes around the domestic history of Britain, as seen from the inside, including: • Popular radicalism • Corresponding Societies of the 1790s • Trade union and Luddite disturbances of the 1800s and 1810s • End of the Napoleonic Wars • Hampden Club movement • Spa Fields Riots • Suspension of habeas corpus • March of the Blanketeers • Pentrich insurrectionists’ march on Nottingham • Peterloo Massacre • Cato Street Conspiracy • Queen Caroline Affair • Swing Riots • Reform Crisis of 1832

Growing calls for political reform, met with state resistance and marked a crisis of legitimacy for both

the government and the reform movements.

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NCCO: British Politics and Society A pivotal period in the history of Great Britain

Thomas Spence: Spence was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England and was the son of a Scottish net and shoe maker.

At the centre of Spence's work was his Plan, known as 'Spence's Plan'. The Plan has a number of features, including:

• The end of aristocracy and landlords; • All land should be publicly owned by 'democratic parishes', which

should be largely self-governing; • Rents of land in parishes to be shared equally amongst

parishioners; • Universal suffrage (including female suffrage) at both parish level

and through a system of deputies elected by parishes to a national senate;

• A 'social guarantee' extended to provide income for those unable to work;

• The 'rights of infants' to be free from abuse and poverty.

Close Up: The Spa Fields Riots

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Spence may have been the first Englishman to speak of 'the rights of man'. The following recollection, composed in the third person, was written by Spence while he was in prison in London in 1794 on a charge of High Treason.

“Ye landlords vile,

whose man's peace mar,

Come levy rents here if you can;

Your stewards and lawyers I defy,

And live with all the RIGHTS OF MAN”

Close Up: The Spa Fields Riots

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British Politics and Society: Collections Snapshot (complete list )

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The Oxford Movement: Tractarian

Pamphlets at Pusey House--The

Halifax and Church Sub-Collections

1830 1890 Pamphlets Pusey House, Oxford

Economic and Social Investigations

in England since 1833: Transactions

of the Manchester Statistical Society

1833-1843; 1853-

1876; 1876-1901

1833-1843; 1853-

1876; 1876-1901

Manuscripts,

Reports, and

Printed

Materials

Manchester Statistical

Society

Papers of Great British Statesmen

and Politicians1749 1806 Manuscripts British Library

Home Office: Registered Papers 1839 1916 ManuscriptsThe National Archives (Kew,

United Kingdom)

Collection TitleEstimated Collection

Start Date

Estimated Collection

End DateContent Type Source Institution

British Politics and Society: Collection Titles Snapshot

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Rare Radical and Labour Periodicals of Great Britain: 1800-1933

Approximately 1.5M pages Full title list is posted here Major themes around the consular and diplomatic exchanges between the U.S., U.K. and many Asian nations, including: • Gunboat Diplomacy • Opium • Philippines War • Missionary activities • Unequal treaties • Expansion of international spheres of influence beyond the British

– Germany in the Shantung – French intrusions in Shanghai – Russia in north China

• Sino-Japanese war • Expansion of the railways in north and central China • America’s “Open Door policy” • The Boxer Rebellion • Rise of Bolshevism • Expansion of warlord-ism

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NCCO: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange

The Boxer Rebellion in northern China:

• Proto-nationalist movement by the “Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists“

• Opposed foreign imperialism and Christianity

• Response to foreign "spheres of influence" in China, with

grievances around:

– opium traders;

– political invasion;

– land appropriation;

– economic manipulation; and

– missionary evangelism

In China, popular sentiment remained resistant to foreign influences, and anger rose over the "unequal treaties", which the weak Qing state could not resist. This sentiment resulted in violent revolts against foreign interests.

Close Up: The Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901)

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Close Up: The Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901)

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Close Up: The Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901)

• The Chinese army and Boxer irregulars besieged the Legation Quarter from 20 June to 14 August 1900. A total of 473 foreign civilians, 409 soldiers from eight countries, and about 3,000 Chinese Christians took refuge there.

• Under the command of the British minister to China, Claude Maxwell MacDonald, the legation staff and security personnel defended the compound with small arms, three machine guns, and one old muzzle-loaded cannon, which was nicknamed the International Gun because the barrel was British, the carriage Italian, the shells Russian, and the crew American.

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Asia and the West: Collections Snapshot (complete list )

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Collection TitleEstimated Collection

Start Date

Estimated Collection

End DateContent Type Source Institution

British Foreign Office: Japan

Correspondence, 1856-19051856 1905 Manuscripts

The National Archives (Kew,

UK)

Despatches From U.S. Consuls in

Bangkok, Siam, 1856-19061856 1906 Manuscripts National Archives (U.S.)

Notes From the Chinese Legation in the

United States to the Department of

State, 1868-1906.

1868 1906 Manuscripts National Archives (U.S.)

Missionary and Socio-Economic

Journals from Asia1845 1941 Manuscripts Yale Divinity School

Asia and the West: Collection Titles Snapshot

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British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1856-1905

Approximately 1.5M pages Full title list here

An examination of the full spectrum of British cultural sensibilities,

told through plays, musical compositions, fiction, novels, penny

Dreadfuls and opera.

Public concerts became big business in the nineteenth century as new

concert halls were built to accommodate a burgeoning middle

class interested in the arts as a form of self-improvement. This

also brought about a change in the kinds of plays and music

being produced and performed.

This series of unique archival collections will provide an insight into

Victorian musical and theatrical tastes by documenting what was

performed and when, as well as casting light on the ‘behind the

scenes’ business and practical aspects of concert promotion, by

making available related archival material such as minute books

and correspondence alongside the printed concert programmes.

NCCO : British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture

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George Bernard Shaw was a famous playwright of the Victorian era. He wrote more

than sixty plays. His plays were mostly about social problems such as education,

religion, marriage, and class privileges.

Close Up: George Bernard Shaw

“[Shaw} became a dedicated Socialist and a charter member of the Fabian Society, a middle class organization established in 1884 to promote the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means. In the course of his political activities he met Charlotte Payne-Townshend, an Irish heiress and fellow Fabian; they married in 1898. The marriage was never consummated, at Charlotte's insistence, though he had had a number of affairs with married women; Shaw declined to stand as an MP, but in 1897 he was elected as a local councillor to the London County Council as a Progressive.”

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"Why appeal to the mob when ninety-five per cent of them do not understand politics, and can do nothing but

mischief without leaders? And what sort of leaders do they vote for? For Titus Oates and Lord George

Gordon with their Popish plots, for Hitler's who call on them to exterminate Jews, for Mussolini's who rally

them to nationalist dreams of glory and empire in which all foreigners are enemies to be subjugated."

Close Up: George Bernard Shaw

[Shaw] was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council.

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Theatre, Music, and Lit: Collections Snapshot (complete list )

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Collection TitleEstimated Collection

Start Date

Estimated Collection

End DateContent Type Source Institution

Archives of the Royal Literary Fund 1790 1814 Manuscripts Royal Literary Fund

King's Theatre Haymarket Archive 1800 1900 Manuscripts British Library

Lord Chamberlain's Plays 1824 1899 Manuscripts British Library

Royal Philharmonic Society Music Manuscripts 1813 1968 Manuscripts British Library

Theatre, Music, and Lit: Collection Titles Snapshot

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Drury Lane Under Sheridan, 1776-1812: Manuscript Plays and Correspondence

NCCO : Corvey Collection of European Literature: 1790-1840

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One of the most important literary discoveries of the second half of the twentieth century was the recovery of the spectacular library of thousands of titles. The literature section of the library contains more than 9,000 titles, covering a broad range of literary genres, and consists of nearly 5M pages. Collected during the first half of the nineteenth century by Victor Amadeus, the Landgrave of Hess-Rotenberg (1779-1834), and housed at his castle (Castle Corvey) near Paderborn, Germany. This remarkable library remained unknown to scholars until late in the 1970s

Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story

writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The

Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and

philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was

the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Close Up: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

”[Shelley] creates an excellent contrast between a Romantic and an Industrialist, and makes a social commentary about social acceptance in her novel. People were seeking Eastern concepts of nirvana, transcendentalism and being one with nature. People wanted to experience life, not study it. They sought extreme emotions, whether they were good or bad. Mary [Shelley] used all of these philosophies of the Romantic Period in writing Frankenstein.” 35

Corvey, 1790-1840: Titles Snapshot

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• Gale is working with our partner libraries and archives to ensure that the content in the NCCO Archives is not already available digitally through other means, privately, commercially, or publicly.

• There may be instances where individual documents or portions of collections included in the NCCO Archives are--or become-- available electronically, elsewhere. Gale seeks to keep that to an absolute minimum.

• It is Gale’s intent to provide valuable and unique content to our students and researchers in a way that fits the needs and outcomes of libraries, students, and researchers.

Policy on Overlap

• The first four NCCO Archives to be fully defined by January, 2012 • Global Advisory Board of Scholars and Librarians to complete by

Spring 2013

• Expected Release Dates are one Archive a month from March to June, 2012

• The next four NCCO Archives to be defined by Spring, 2012

• Expected Release Dates are one a month beginning in March 2013

• Further NCCO Archives for 2014 will be defined in collaboration with

NCCO customers and partner libraries

Timeline