June 1, Monday: Organizing a Collection
Articles and Selections
- Baker, Nicholson. “Discards.” New Yorker, April 4, 1994.
N.B. Second half of this can be skimmed - Degutis, Alan. “AAS NEH NAIP Application,” July 2014.
- Drucker, Johanna. “Distributed and Conditional Documents: Conceptualizing Bibliographical Alterities.” MATLIT: Revista Do Programa de Doutoramento Em Materialidades Da Literatura 2, no. 1 (November 8, 2014): 11–29.
- Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. Winchester, UK: St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1995. Selection.
- *Gura, Philip. The American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A Bicentennial History. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2012. Selection.
- Karian, Stephen. “The Limitations and Possibilities of the ESTC.” Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, MLA-IB, 21 (2011): 283–97.
- *Kirschenbaum, Matthew, and Sarah Werner. “Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline.” Book History 17, no. 1 (2014): 406–58.
- Lee, Hur-Li, and Lei Zhang. “Tracing the Conceptions and Treatment of Genre in Anglo-American Cataloging.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 51, no. 8 (November 2013): 891–912.
- *McKenzie, D.F. “Computers and the Humanities: A Personal Synthesis of Conference Issues.” In Scholarship and Technology in the Humanities. Hampshire, UK: British Library, 1991. doi:1991.
- Pasternack, Howard. “Online Catalogs and the Retrospective Conversion of Special Collections.” Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, 1990, 71–76.
- Van Hooland, Seth, and Ruben Verbough. “Reconciling.” In Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata. Chicago: American Library Association, 2014.
Blog Posts and Web Pages
- Augst, Thomas, and Molly O’Hagan Hardy. “The Antiquarian in the Twenty-First Century.”Past Is Present, October 23, 2014.
- Hardy, Molly O’Hagan. Big Data in Early America: Bibliometrics and The North American Imprints Program (NAIP).” Past Is Present, December 1, 2014.
- Stahmer, Carl. “Making MARC Agnostic.” Carl Stahmer, October 26, 2013
- Underwood, Ted. “Distant Reading and the Blurry Edges of Genre.”The Stone and the Shell
- Witmore, Michael. “Now Read This: A Thought Experiment.”Wine Dark Sea
Resources
- Bibliographic Standards Committee, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, and The Policy and Standards Office of the Library of Congress. Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books). Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service Library of Congress, 2011.
June 2, Tuesday: Records
Articles and Selections
- Amory, Hugh. “A Note on Statistics.” In History of the Book in America, Vol. 1, 2000.
- Blair, Ann. 2010. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Selection.
- Gross, Robert A. “Bibliography and the AAS Catalog: A Note on Tables.” In History of the Book in America, edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley, Vol. 2. Durham, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- *Muñoz, Trevor. “Data Curation as Publishing for the Digital Humanities.” Journal of Digital Humanities, November 22, 2013.
- Piper, Andrew. Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Selections.
- Thomale, Jason. “Interpreting MARC: Where’s the Bibliographic Data?” The Code4Lib Journal, no. 11 (September 21, 2010).
N.B. Do not get bogged down in the coding details including in this article - Werner, Sarah. “Where Material Book Culture Meets Digital Humanities.”Digital Humanities 1, no. 33 (Summer 2013).
Blog Posts and Web Pages
- Blake, Erin. “Folger Tooltips: Getting Raw Hamnet Data.” The Collation. Accessed September 17, 2014
Resources
- Penn State University Libraries Intro to MARC Tagging
- America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Readex)
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) (Readex)
- Library of Congress Name Authorities
- Library of Congress Subject Authorities
- MarcEdit
N.B. Please download on your computer.
June 3, Wednesday: Records and Newspapers
Articles and Selections
- Cordell, Ryan. “‘Taken Possession of’: The Reprinting and Reauthorship of Hawthorne’s ‘Celestial Railroad’ in the Antebellum Religious Press.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 7, no. 1 (2013).
- Jackson, Leon. The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Selection.
- Slauter, Will. “Toward a History of Copyright for Periodical Writings: Examples from Nineteenth-Century America.” In From Text(s) to Book(s): Studies in the Production and Editorial Process, edited by Nathalie Colle-Bak, Monica Latham, and David Ten Eyck. Editions universitaires de Lorraine, 2015.
Blog Posts and Web Pages
- Lorang, Elizabeth, and Leen-Kiat Soh. “Image Analysis for Archival Discovery (Aida)”
- “NEH Releases National Digital Newspaper Program Impact Study | National Endowment for the Humanities.” Accessed September 30, 2014
Resources
- American Antiquarian Society Topical Genre Headings
- American Antiquarian Society Serials Cataloguing Manual
- 19th Century American Children’s Book Trade Directory
- AAS Historical Periodicals Collection, 1691-1877, Series 1-5 (EBSCO)
- America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Readex)
- MarcEdit
June 4, Thursday: Editorial Practices
Articles and Selections
- Brown, Richard D. 1989. “William Bentley and the Ideal of Universal Information in the Enlightened Republic.” In Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- *Liu, Alan. “Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse.” Critical Inquiry 31, no. 1 (Autumn 2004): 49–84.
- McGann, Jerome. A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Selections.
- *Ruffin, J. Rixey. A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Tanselle, Thomas. A Rationale of Textual Criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Selections.
Blog Posts and Web Pages
- Birnbaum, David. “What Is XML and Why Should Humanists Care? An Even Gentler Introduction to XML.” Digital Humanities, April 15, 2012.
- “Guidelines for Scholarly Editions.” MLA
Resources
- Evans Text Creation Partnership
- Oxygen XML Editor
N.B. Instructions on a free-trial to come
June 5, Friday: Graphic Arts
Articles and Selections
- Manovich, Lev. “Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Collections of Images and Video.” The European Graduate School, 2011.
- Manovich, Lev. “New Media Aesthetics.” The European Graduate School, 2001.
- “Learning to Look.” National Endowment for the Arts
- *Klenczon, Wanda, and Paweł Rygiel. “Librarian Cornered by Images, or How to Index Visual Resources.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 52, no. 1 (December 18, 2013): 42–61.
- Rogers, Adam. "The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress.” WIRED, February 26, 2015.
- Taylor, Joshua. Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.
Resources
- Flickr
- Digital Commonwealth
- Digital Public Library of America
- Library of Congress, Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Getty
- Library of Congress, Subject Headings
- Blake, Tom. “Trail of Image Metadata...,” May 5, 2015.