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        Date: 2024-08-28 16:21:55+00:00
        From: Nelson, Brent <brent.nelson@usask.ca>
        Subject: Release of Version 2 of the Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS)

The GEMMS research team is very pleased to announce the release of Version 2 of
Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS)

The Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (https://gemms.usask.ca/), is an
open-access, group-sourced bibliographic database of manuscript sermons from the
British Isles and North America between 1530 and 1715. GEMMS is intended to make
sermon manuscripts more accessible to sermon scholars, non-specialists, and
citizen scholars, such as genealogists and local historians. Manuscript sermons
are valuable for studying a wide range of topics, from literature, religion, and
book history, to politics, society, and women. GEMMS allows users to identify
relevant sermon material in manuscripts held in over eighty repositories quickly
and easily, a task that was virtually impossible before. GEMMS includes records
for some 30,000 sermons and reports of sermons as well as 4,386 associated
people and 3,784 associated places. It also enables searching by biblical
passage.

This new version of GEMMS has enhanced finding capabilities, enabling users to
search any field in the database. GEMMS 2.0 also has improved capability to
refine searches and provides faceted searching of some fields. For the first
time, users are able to

  *   search for sermons with manuscript witnesses, print editions, or digital
copies
  *   easily search for preachers of a particular denomination
  *   identify sermons preached in a specified language and
  *   quickly refine searches by a variety of criteria, including sermon types,
occasions, languages and genres.

Another important new feature is provision for user contribution to enable the
continued growth and development of the data in GEMMS. A new interface allows
users to submit and add their own metadata and enhance existing records by
submitting keywords, corrections, and additions.

GEMMS will be hosting an online workshop to demonstrate the new features of
GEMMS 2.0 on Tuesday, September 10, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CST. Registration is
available via Eventbrite:  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/gemms-20-virtual-
workshop-introducing-the-new-iteration-of-gemms-
tickets-712447709277?aff=erellivmlt.

GEMMS is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
and is a joint project of the University of Regina and the Digital Research
Centre at the University of Saskatchewan.

Brent Nelson on behalf of the GEMMS Research team: Jeanne Shami, Anne James, and
Jennifer Farooq




Brent Nelson, PhD
Professor of English
Chair of Undergraduate Programs in English
University of Saskatchewan
Ph: 306-966-1820

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