University of Virginia Electronic Text Center Records

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Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

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Due to their nature, archived websites and webpages do not have the same search functionality as do live websites. Users cannot search for content within the scanned texts in the archived site.

Terms of access:

The University of Virginia holds some of the copyrights in this collection. Please inquire about permissions for reuse. Visit our Permissions and Publishing page for more information about use of Special Collections materials. The library can provide copyright information upon request, but users are responsible for making their own determination about lawful use of collections materials. https://www.library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/publishing

Preferred citation:

RG 12/39, University of Virginia Electronic Text Center Records, Small Special Collections Library, Univiersity of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
9.5 Cubic Feet Combination of physical materials from main collection and first two additions. and 0.397 Gigabytes
Creator:
University of Virginia. Library
Language:
English Japanese
Preferred citation:

RG 12/39, University of Virginia Electronic Text Center Records, Small Special Collections Library, Univiersity of Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center Records are currently divided into four series. As a part of the University Archives, this is a crowing collection, where a new series will be created with each new addition. The first series is the initial accession, and the latter three including the first, second, and third additions. This collection includes correspondence, policies and procedures, files on grants, other forms of documentation, and some printed material. There is a substantial amount of material on the Japanese Text Initiative project. Many of the materials regarding the Japanese Text Initiative are copies of source material used for the project, primarily are written in Japanese, that have annotations and notes attached to them, as well as notes, emails, and information about programs and standards used for this project written in English and Japanese. Also included are the records of Kendon Stubbs, Librarian Emeritus of the University of Virginia, that focus on the University's efforts to obtain the Raymond Danowski Poetry Collection and the operations of the Rare Book School. Physical materials are arranged as found and are unprocessed.

The born-digital part of the collection includes archived web pages from websites created by the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center, or as a partnership with other organizations and groups. The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center Records Archived Web Pages collection record can be found here: https://archive-it.org/collections/22178. Currently, the Japanese Text Initiative Website, most recent addition, is the only archived website for this collection. The Japanese Text Initiative website was a collaborative effort of the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web. The short term goal of this initiative was to "put online most or all of the Twenty Classical Works in J. Thomas Rimer's A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature, revised edition (New York: Kodansha, 1999)." Generally, the goal was to "add a wide range of pre-twentieth-century works." The main audience according to the creators are English-speaking scholars and students.

Original guide to the collection, RG-12/39/1.151: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u6562665

Guide to first addition, ViU-2022-0023: https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/repositories/3/accessions/1403

Guide to second addition, ViU-2021-0166: https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/repositories/uva-sc/accessions/university_library_digital_library_production_serv

Processing information:

This finding aid was created for creating access to recent and future additions. The guides for original acquisition and previous additions can be found in the online catalog.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into four series:

1. The initial collection of 5 boxes that includes material regarding the Japanese Text Initiative, accessioned in 2015.

2. The first addition: 1 box with the records of Kendon Stubbs, Librarian Emeritus of the University of Virginia, accessioned in 2021.

3. The second addition: 4 boxes with records of Japanese Text Initiative project, accessioned in 2019.

4. The third addition: archived webpages from the Japanese Text Initiative website, crawled on January 8, 2024.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Digital humanities
Japanese literature