The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95315   Message #1853456
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
08-Oct-06 - 04:15 PM
Thread Name: F.J. Child - entire work online!!!
Subject: RE: F.J. Child - entire work online!!!
There still seems to be some misunderstanding here.

There are two separate sets of files linked to at 'Sacred Texts'. The first is at another site (details above); that is the facsimile of the 1860 collection.

The second is Sacred Text's rendering to html of the song texts only of English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882 - 1898): this was made (whether or not with her permission I don't know) from Cathy Preston's textual concordance, which was originally published online as a raw database.

Because it is a concordance, all contextual information (probably half or more of Child's work) is omitted. It isn't immediately obvious whether or not the people at 'Sacred Texts' have grasped this point.

The whole thing ought to be clear enough to people who use the links I have provided to further information instead of just jumping to conclusions.