Category: Images

Seeing an image alongside each transcribed dictionary is important. Many of the features of 18th century print can’t be reproduced in Unicode. And our goal is to make Johnson’s dictionary as easy to access as a modern dictionary, which means that even if we could reproduce the print exactly, we wouldn’t want to do it. The dictionary’s 18th-century print conventions,...

As I mentioned in a previous post, we began the project with scans generously provided by the Cordell Collection at Indiana State University, with student volunteers at UCF cropping full-page images into entry-sized images. Then a team of UCF computer science majors created software that could de-warp, enhance, crop, and merge entry images—when we supplied it with high resolution images....

Our legacy site provided full-page black & white images, along with smaller images of those entries that had been transcribed. For our new site, we planned some key improvements: full-page images scanned in color from an original copy (vs. a modern facsimile copy) entry images appear alongside the transcription (vs. on a separate page) images for both the 1755 (1st...

Johnson’s Dictionary Online has benefited from the generous help of two libraries: The Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection of Dictionaries at the Indiana State University Library, and the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. The full-page images on our site come from UF: 1755 (1st folio) edition: ESTC T117231,  UF shelfmark 423.2 J69d 1755, folio...