1st Edition
Library Catalogues as Data Research, Practice and Usage
Foreword
Thomas Padilla
Introduction: The Library Catalogue Data Ecosystem
Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras and Sarah Ames
Chapter 1: Making the Conceptual Concrete: Defining, Describing and Visualising Collective Collections
Brian Lavoie
Chapter 2: Effects of Open Science and the Digital Transformation on the Bibliographical Data Landscape
Péter Király, Tomasz Umerle, Vojtěch Malínek, Elzbieta Herden, Beata Koper, Giovanni Colavizza, Rindert Jagersma, Leo Lahti, David Lindemann, Jakub Maciej Łubocki, Alexandra Milanova, Róbert Péter, Nanette Rißler-Pipka, Dorota Siwecka, Matteo Romanello, Marcin Roszkowski, Mikko Tolonen and Ondřej Vimr
Chapter 3: Data Quality in Library Catalogues and its Impact on Access, Analysis, and Reuse
Gustavo Candela
Chapter 4: Data Bias and the Natural Language Processing of Metadata
Lucy Havens
Chapter 5: 'Contains Scenes of Mild Peril': Illuminating the Catalogues of Dark Archives
Martin Paul Eve
Chapter 6: Book Formats, Printing Practices and Reading Habits in Early Modern Europe
Mikko Tolonen
Chapter 7: '(S)hut not thy Heart, nor thy Library': Realising the Potential of Historical Library Borrowing Data
Katie Halsey and Matthew Sangster, with Brian Aitken, Karen Baston, Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell, Alex Deans, Jaqueline Kennard, Gerard McKeever and Joshua J. Smith
Chapter 8: ChatGPT for Bibliometrics: Potential Applications and Limitations
Daniel Torres-Salinas, Mike Thelwall and Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado
Chapter 9: Using Generative AI to Turn 19th Century Library Catalogues into Data: Applications and Limitations
Julia Bauder and Christopher Jones
Chapter 10: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Catalogue Data: Understanding Curatorial Practice Over Time
Rossitza Atanassova and James Baker
Biography
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.
