1. Datafication and reuse of the descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library
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Atanassova, Rossitza, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
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Paper ,and methods ,History ,catalogue data ,Library & information science ,optical character recognition and handwriting recognition ,Linguistics ,incunabula ,metadata standards ,computational analysis ,text mining and analysis ,Humanities computing ,FOS: Languages and literature ,systems ,historical catalogues ,Poster ,natural language processing ,practitioner research - Abstract
The use of computational approaches with legacy catalogue descriptions enables new insights into their authors' historical perspectives, and provides the means for their evaluation and transformation into contemporary online catalogue records. I discuss my computational research with the historical catalogues of the British Library collection of pre-1500 published books.
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- 2023
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