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RBWG & CDH Spring Workshop Series: Part II
Special Collections as Data: From Book Historical Data to Research Projects
Join the Rare Book Working Group (RBWG) and guest facilitator Sierra Eckert (CDH Postdoctoral Research Associate and Perkins Fellow) for the second of two introductory workshops on digital research methods and practicums in book history during COVID-19.
Book historians and print culture scholars have long been aware of the importance of metadata: information such as provenance, authorship, and copy-specific data about book objects, for scholars of the book, are key to understanding larger questions about the production, reception, and circulation of texts. This workshop is designed to offer a new set of methods for thinking about the data of book history.
In part 2 of this workshop, we will explore the kinds of research questions we can ask of bibliographic data from special collections and learn techniques for exploratory data analysis and visualization. We’ll open the conversation up to think about methods of book history (and how building and conceiving a dataset for experimental research complicates, extends, and offers new directions for those methods). Participants are encouraged to bring their own book historical research data to the workshop––but not required.
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