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.
Through the web of library catalogs, library management systems and myriad digital resources, libraries have become repositories not only for physical and digital information resources but also for enormous amounts of data about the interactions between these resources and their users. Bringing together leading practitioners and academic voices, this book aims to consider library catalogue data as a research resource.
Separated into four sections, the book discusses 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; and
- scholarship that responds to the possibilities of library data.
Through the web of library catalogues, library management systems and myriad digital resources, libraries have become repositories not only for physical and digital information resources but also for enormous amounts of data about the interactions between these resources and their users. Bringing together leading practitioners and academic voices, this book aims to consider library catalogue data as a research resource.
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.
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.
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.
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, Vojtch
Malínek, Elzbieta Herden, Beata Koper, Giovanni Colavizza, Rindert Jagersma,
Leo Lahti, David Lindemann, Jakub Maciej ubocki, Alexandra Milanova, Róbert
Péter, Nanette Rißler-Pipka, Dorota Siwecka, Matteo Romanello, Marcin
Roszkowski, Mikko Tolonen and Ondej 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
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 Edinburghs 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 Librarys 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.
