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• 1 media/image104.jpg 2021-08-26T13:12:25-07:00 2006 - The William Blake Archive Arrives at UNC 3 Created in 1996, the Blake Archive, an international public digital archive of the major works of William Blake, moved its base of operations from the University of Virgina to the Carolina Digital Library and Archives (CDLA) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. plain 2021-09-02T08:35:13-07:00 05/01/2006 Created in 1996, the Blake Archive, an international public digital archive of the major works of William Blake, moved its base of operations from the University of Virgina to the Carolina Digital Library and Archives (CDLA) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. 
  
  William Blake (1757-1827) is well known for his prints, paintings, and poems and respect for his work has steadily grown over the past two centuries. However, his works are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility. The Blake Archive was conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to Blake’s major works of visual and literary art. 
  
  In 2006 the Archive moved its base of operations from IATH at the University of Virginia to the Carolina Digital Library and Archives (CDLA) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This move provided far greater scope for their work. Previously the archive had to alternate between technical and editorial challenges, and changes registered slowly. UNC provided the resources to move forward on all fronts simultaneously. Under the guidance of the Blake Archive’s editors, a redesign team of UNC faculty and graduate students began architecting the new site in late 2013 and in early 2014 joined with UNC’s Libraries and ITS Research Computing to reconceptualize the public face of the Archive. The Archive’s redesign team was led by UNC faculty and graduate students: Joseph Viscomi (1951- ) and consists of Consultant on Special Projects (and former Project Manager) Ashley Reed, Managing Editor Joseph Fletcher, and Technical Editor Michael Fox, who as system architect designed the new front and back end, and contributed programming.
  
  
  
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  William Blake Archive. “‘Archive at a Glance’ in “About the Archive” The William Blake Archive, Department of English and Comparative Literature,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021, www.blakearchive.org/staticpage/archiveataglance.