Library Catalogues as Data: Research, Practice and Usage

Author:   Paul Gooding ,  Melissa Terras ,  Sarah Ames
Publisher:   Facet Publishing
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Pages:   272
Publication Date:   26 June 2025
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Author:   Paul Gooding ,  Melissa Terras ,  Sarah Ames
Publisher:   Facet Publishing
Imprint:   Facet Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9781783306589


ISBN 10:   1783306580
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   26 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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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

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Paul Gooding is Professor of Library Studies and Digital Scholarship at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on the relationship between digital library collections, communities of usage and practice and legal/institutional frameworks for collection development. He has a particular interest in the implications of emerging digital technologies on research and library practices. 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 Digital Research, including the Library’s open data platform, Data Foundry. She has collaborated on a wide range of research initiatives bringing together digital tools and methods to explore the national collections.

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