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Lead Editor – Jack Lynch, Rutgers University<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-Principal Investigator – Carmen Faye Mathes, University of Regina<\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-Principal Investigator – Amy Larner Giroux<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senior XML Analyst – William Dorner<\/p>\n\n\n\n Programmer \/ Database Analyst – Connie Harper<\/p>\n\n\n\n XML Editor\/Social Media Manager \u2013 Abigail Moreshead<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Robert DeMaria, Jr., Vassar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark Kamrath, University of Central Florida<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lynda Mugglestone, Pembroke College, Oxford<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Allen Reddick, University of Zurich<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Neil Weijer, University of Florida<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Marc Alexander, University of Glasgow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jorge Fonseca Cacho, University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthew M. Davis<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brian Grimes, Samuel Johnson Dictionary Sources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rebecca Shapiro, New York City College of Technology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n David-Antoine Williams, St. Jerome\u2019s University in the University of Waterloo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the people named in the grant itself; library staff at UCF, UF and ISU; and UCF’s Center for Humanities and Digital Research, this project has benefitted from the contributions of hundreds of other people. Most have been UCF students, but volunteers have also joined us across the U.S. and from Brazil, Canada, Portugal, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A complete list of names is here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Brandi Besalke<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n This project was made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities:<\/a> Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A transcribed, XML-encoded text of Samuel Johnson\u2019s 1755 folio edition of A Dictionary of the English Language<\/em> has been licensed to our project under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) by Ian Lancashire, editor, Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)<\/a>, the University of Toronto. We wish to thank our colleagues in Canada for their generous help. LEME anticipates release of its 1755 Johnson encoded transcription sometime in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Facsimile images were provided with support from the Digital Support Services Team at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries.<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional facsimile images were provided by the Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection of Dictionaries<\/a> at Indiana State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author “bio-tweets” (brief descriptions of many cited authors) were written by Brian Grimes of sjdictionarysources.org<\/a> and are used with permission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The portrait of Samuel Johnson that appears on the project homepage is known as “Blinking Sam”; painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1755, the portrait is used courtesy of the Huntington Art Collections<\/a>, San Marino, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAdvisory Board<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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