As many of you know or have noticed specialized databases (some of you might refer to them as search verticals), online archives and digitizaton projects, and research tools are of special interest to me. At the same time we often don't write about databases that deal with the arts. So, the following is an exception. About a week ago, a new database, actually it's part of a massive digitisation initiative named the The Online Poetry Archive (OPA) debuted in the UK and is now accessible on the web. The goal of the OPA is to digitise and make searchable poetry...

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