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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 arrays of 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 catalog 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 catalog 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.
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