University of Virginia Electronic Text Center Records

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