Library Catalogues as Data: Research, Practice and Usage
Editat de Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras, Sarah Amesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iun 2025
Separated into four sections, the book will discuss a range of topics surrounding library information and data, including:
- Practical routes to preparing library catalogue data for researchers
- The ethics of library metadata privacy and reuse
- Data interoperability across library systems
- Data and collections bias
- Library-vendor relationships and data licensing
- The practical and theoretical issues inherent in reimagining administrative, usage, and bibliographic data as a research resource
- Scholarship that responds to the possibilities of library data.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781783306589
ISBN-10: 1783306580
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Facet Publishing
Colecția Facet Publishing
ISBN-10: 1783306580
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Facet Publishing
Colecția Facet Publishing
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Foreword Introduction: The Library Catalogue Data Ecosystem Chapter 1: Making the Conceptual Concrete: Defining, Describing and Visualising Collective Collections Chapter 2: Effects of Open Science and the Digital Transformation on the Bibliographical Data Landscape Chapter 3: Data Quality in Library Catalogues and its Impact on Access, Analysis, and Reuse Chapter 4: Data Bias and the Natural Language Processing of Metadata Chapter 5: 'Contains Scenes of Mild Peril': Illuminating the Catalogues of Dark Archives Chapter 6: Book Formats, Printing Practices and Reading Habits in Early Modern Europe Chapter 7: '(S)hut not thy Heart, nor thy Library': Realising the Potential of Historical Library Borrowing Data Chapter 8: ChatGPT for Bibliometrics: Potential Applications and Limitations Chapter 9: Using Generative AI to Turn 19th Century Library Catalogues into Data: Applications and Limitations Chapter 10: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Catalogue Data: Understanding Curatorial Practice Over Time
Notă biografică
Dr. Paul Gooding is a Senior Lecturer in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow. A trained librarian with a background in Media Librarianship, his research explores the theoretical and practical impact of large-scale digitisation in the cultural heritage sector. Gooding currently serves on the Digital Preservation Coalition's Workforce Development Sub-Committee, and the Academic Advisory Board for the British Library Heritage Made Digital Newspaper Digitisation programme. He previously founded and directed the UEA Digital Humanities incubator, and has a track record of leading funded research projects with major research and national libraries in the UK and US.
Prof. Melissa Terras is the Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh's College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, leading digital aspects of CAHSS research as Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society, and is Director of Research in the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Gooding and Terras have collaborated on a previous edited volume, entitled Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future.
Dr. Sarah Ames is Digital Scholarship Librarian at the National Library of Scotland, with responsibility for the Library's Digital Scholarship Service and Data Foundry. She is a member of the LIBER DH Working Group core group, where she co-chairs the Research Collaborations group, RLUK Digital Scholarship Network, and the Alan Turing Institute Humanities and Data Science group. Sarah has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh; her PhD thesis was shortlisted for the Saltire Literary Awards 2013. Alongside this, she has postgraduate qualifications in Library and Information Science and in Data Science.
Prof. Melissa Terras is the Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh's College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, leading digital aspects of CAHSS research as Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society, and is Director of Research in the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Gooding and Terras have collaborated on a previous edited volume, entitled Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future.
Dr. Sarah Ames is Digital Scholarship Librarian at the National Library of Scotland, with responsibility for the Library's Digital Scholarship Service and Data Foundry. She is a member of the LIBER DH Working Group core group, where she co-chairs the Research Collaborations group, RLUK Digital Scholarship Network, and the Alan Turing Institute Humanities and Data Science group. Sarah has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh; her PhD thesis was shortlisted for the Saltire Literary Awards 2013. Alongside this, she has postgraduate qualifications in Library and Information Science and in Data Science.
Descriere
This book will be an essential read for practitioners in the GLAM sector, particularly those dealing with collections and catalogue data, and LIS academics and students.