
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a freely-accessible, high-resolution digital collection of the seventy-five pre-1641 quarto editions of William Shakespeare's plays.
The one-year project will also produce an interactive interface and toolset for the detailed study of the quartos, with full-functionality applied to all thirty-two copies of one play, Hamlet, held at participating institutions.
Contributing content to this multi-institutional project will be the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, the British Library, the University of Edinburgh Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, and the National Library of Scotland. Textual encoding will be provided by staff of the Oxford Digital Library of the University of Oxford. Programming and prototype design will be undertaken by staff of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities of the University of Maryland. Participating in evaluation will be the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, and the Teaching Shakespeare Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
A discussion forum for issues relating to the Archive is located at http://mith.info/quartos/discussion/. Please email sqa@bodley.ox.ac.uk for an account.