Update history

beta phase (May 2016 - May 2019)

1 May 2016 (v0.95): Public beta first made available at http://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/ (604 works, 147 authors)
18 May 2016 (v0.95.1): Content added: Alexander Pope (13 poems added)
31 May 2016 (v0.95.2): Content added: Jonathan Swift (author page and eleven poems added)
16 June 2016 (v0.95.3): Content added: Anna Laetitia Barbauld (author page and 32 poems added)
30 June 2016 (v0.95.4): Content added: Joseph Addison (author page, six English and Latin poems, three translator pages and four English translations added)
15 July 2016 (v0.95.5): Content added: Mary Leapor (author page and 70 poems added)
17 August 2016 (v0.95.6): Enhancements: introduced "Featured Author" and "Featured Work"; Corrections: several PoS tagging issues resolved
31 August 2016 (v0.95.7): Content added: Charles Churchill (author page and twelve poems added)
30 September 2016 (v0.95.8): Content added: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, ed. by Moses Mendez (1 vol., 1st edition 1767) (36 new author pages and 78 poems added); Content removed: author pages for D'Assigny and Waller; Enhancements: home page re-designed; Corrections: minor encoding issues resolved
31 October 2016 (v0.96): Content added: A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes. By Several Hands, ed. by G. Pearch (4 vols., 2nd edition 1770) (64 new author pages and 293 poems added); Version milestone (1000+ works) reached; Corrections: several PoS tagging and sentencing issues resolved; Enhancements: NER gazetteer supplemented by PoS-based named entity recognition
16 November 2016 (v0.96.1): Content added: Ann Yearsley, Poems on Several Occasions (1785) (author page and 17 poems added)
30 November 2016 (v0.96.2): Content added: John Pomfret, Poems upon Several Occasions (6th ed., 1724) (author page and 20 poems added)
16 December 2016 (v0.96.3): Content added: Laetitia Pilkington (enhanced author page and one poem added) and John Philips (author page and two poems added)
30 January 2017 (v0.96.4): Content added: Mary Barber (114 poems added) and seven other authors (seven new author pages and 19 poems added)
27 February 2017 (v0.96.5): Content added: William Diaper and Edward Young (author pages and some major works added); Enhancements: tables of contents of all source editions added; Corrections: minor encoding issues and several sentencing issues resolved
31 March 2017 (v0.96.6): Content added: Anne Finch, Miscellany poems, on several occasions (1713) (author page and 86 poems added); Enhancements: links from the gallery to author pages added; links to source editions in the OTA added; all data supporting this research are now also available from our GitHub page; Corrections: sorting of work titles improved
18 April 2017 (v0.96.7): Content added: William Cowper, Poems (1782) and The Task (1785) (two author pages and 49 poems added) and James Thomson (major works added); Enhancements: improved display of other works by the same author(s) in the reading view
2 May 2017 (v0.97): Content added: Mary Robinson (author page and 31 poems added); Version milestone (completion of year one) reached (1501 works, 269 authors); Enhancements: follow ECPA on Facebook or Google+ for the latest updates; Corrections: several important corrections prompted by user feedback
10 May 2017 (v0.97.1): Enhancements: token highlighting in syntactic and semantic parses (analysis view) added; Corrections: resolved an issue introduced in v0.97 that resulted in erroneous spelling normalizations
1 June 2017 (v0.97.2): Content added: Stephen Duck and Oliver Goldsmith (major works added); Enhancements: added phonemic transcription display in the phonological layer and token highlighting in morphological parses (analysis view)
14 June 2017 (v0.97.3): Content added: Sarah Fyge Egerton (author page and 58 poems added), Mary Jones (author page and 53 poems added), and Hannah More (author page and three poems added)
3 July 2017 (v0.97.4): Content added: Elizabeth Singer Rowe (enhanced author page and 52 poems added)
17 August 2017 (v0.97.5): Content added: Christopher Smart (31 poems added)
4 September 2017 (v0.98): Content added: George Crabbe (author page and nine poems added); Enhancements: added analysis popovers (similar to contextual reading aid popovers in the reading view), which provide an integrated display of the analytical layers for every word/token; Research: planning phase for the next two modes of engagement (views) started, namely visualization view and modelling view
2 October 2017 (v0.98.1): Content added: Helen Maria Williams (author page and 60 poems added); Enhancements: introductory tour of the ECPA views and core features added; Website: fixed an issue that prevented printing of some pages
1 November 2017 (v0.98.2): Content added: George Monck Berkeley (author page and 44 poems added), Robert Bloomfield (author page and one poem added), and Amelia Alderson Opie (author page and 37 poems added)
4 December 2017 (v0.98.3): Content added: Anna Seward (author page and twelve poems added), Anne Home Hunter (author page and 58 poems added), Susanna Blamire (author page and 84 poems added), and Catherine Gilpin (author page and two poems added); Website: all external links restored and verified
17 January 2018 (v0.98.4): Content added: Hannah Cowley (author page and 21 poems added), Robert Merry (author page and eight poems added), Bertie Greatheed (author page and one poem added), and Ann Yearsley (one poem added)
5 February 2018 (v0.98.5): Content added: Joanna Baillie (author page and 93 poems added)
8 March 2018 (v0.98.6): Content added: Thomas Chatterton (author page and 45 poems added) and Thomas Cary (author page and one poem added)
3 April 2018 (v0.98.7): Content added: Charlotte Smith (author page and 68 poems added)
2 May 2018 (v0.99): Content added: James Macpherson (author page and 32 poems added); Version milestone (completion of year two) reached (2327 works, 289 authors); Enhancements: ECPA is now also listed as a dataset in the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA); Website: added placeholders for visualization and modelling views to the interface, updates on progress to follow throughout the year
4 June 2018 (v0.99.1): Content added: Isaac Watts (author page and 111 poems added); Enhancements: source editions are now browsable in their entirety (via the icons); Website: the vertical divider on poem pages can now be dragged to resize the left and right parts of the display in any view; Research: we have begun implementation of our first visualization, entitled Phonemia, to be added over the coming months
2 July 2018 (v0.99.2): Content added: Mary Collier (author page and ten poems added); Enhancements: minor corrections and additions (vocabulary density, most frequent words, average number of words per sentence) in the analysis view; Research: delighted to announce that Poem Viewer (funded by JISC/NEH's "Digging Into Data Challenge") will become one of the visualizations available in ECPA's visualization view—many thanks to Alfie Abdul-Rahman for collaborating with us on this project!
15 August 2018 (v0.99.3): Content added: Thomas Parnell (author page and 20 poems added); Research: Phonemia and Poem Viewer, our first two visualizations, will become available in our next update (Sep. 2018)
3 September 2018 (v0.99.4): Content added: Charlotte Lennox (author page and 31 poems added); Research: Phonemia and Poem Viewer are now live and ready to be explored in the visualization view
1 October 2018 (v0.99.5): Content added: six women poets (Mary Pix, Susanna Centlivre, Elizabeth Griffith, Sophia Lee, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Ann Batten Cristall) (author pages and 35 poems added); Corrections: removed separate author profiles of translated authors; Enhancements: added listing of work titles by source editions to author profiles; added free-text input field for notes/observations to the analysis view
5 November 2018 (v0.99.6): Content added: Ambrose Philips (author page and six poems added) and John Gay (author page and 51 poems added); Outreach: we are delighted to be collaborating with 18thConnect on the integration of ECPA into their fold of federated digital projects
3 December 2018 (v0.99.7): Content added: James Boswell (author page and five poems added) and Hannah Brand (author page and seven poems added); Research: performance improvements and other enhancements in the Phonemia visualization
3 January 2019 (v0.99.8): Content added: Mary Alcock (author page and 51 poems added) and Robert Burns (author page and 44 poems added); Enhancements: updated and expanded bibliography
4 February 2019 (v0.99.9): Content added: Hymns and Sacred Poems by John and Charles Wesley and friends (five author pages and 87 poems added); Research: we have started implementing the backend components of our modelling view (core and domain ontologies, triplestore); over the coming months, we will be concentrating on the modelling interface and visualization, we hope to finalize a working prototype by the end of beta
4 March 2019 (v0.99.10): Content added: Catherine Rebecca Grey, Lady Manners (author page and 28 poems added)
2 April 2019 (v0.99.11): Content added: Matthew Prior (author page and 114 poems added); Research: DoubleTree joins the available adapted visualizations in the visualization view; Enhancements: redesigned and expanded visualization view
1 May 2019 (v1.0): Release version milestone (completion of year three/end of beta) reached (2959 works, 314 authors); Content added: late eighteenth-century authors, (Mary) Matilda Betham (author page and 30 poems added), Thomas Campbell (author page and seven poems added), Maria and Harriet Falconar (author pages and two poems added)