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Digitaliseringen av svenskt tryck : Massdigitalisering, kritisk digitalisering och frågan om hur man skapar en representativ korpus

Weber, Kajsa LU orcid (2022) In Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria 2022. p.151-163
Abstract
The Swedish National Library published together with the university libraries in Gothenburg, Lund, Stockholm, Umeå and Uppsala in January 2020 a Declaration of Intent where the goal to digitiz Swedish print from the 15th century until today was formulated. Based on this objective, the article discusses different digitization strategies in libraries. Mass digitization stands for the rapid digitization of large collections, while critical digitization values the creation of new metadata and careful processes of collecting which books that will be digitized. The article particularly highlights the need for representative corpora in future digitization of “the Swedish print”. If the goal is to provide digitized material that will strengthen... (More)
The Swedish National Library published together with the university libraries in Gothenburg, Lund, Stockholm, Umeå and Uppsala in January 2020 a Declaration of Intent where the goal to digitiz Swedish print from the 15th century until today was formulated. Based on this objective, the article discusses different digitization strategies in libraries. Mass digitization stands for the rapid digitization of large collections, while critical digitization values the creation of new metadata and careful processes of collecting which books that will be digitized. The article particularly highlights the need for representative corpora in future digitization of “the Swedish print”. If the goal is to provide digitized material that will strengthen democracy and help researchers to formulate new questions, it is central that the corpus of texts that undergo digitization are representative of what they are meant to reflect. Otherwise, researchers risk asking questions about historical change and social development to a collection of texts that cannot answer the question or give misleading answers. National bibliographic is a valuable starting point for this work. The article studies two successful digitization projects of rare books – EEBO in England and VD16 in Germany – which base their metadata on bibliographic projects from the 20th century. Similar approaches in Swedish would encourage digitization that combine mass digitization with critical digitization. (Less)
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Digitization of Swedish Print : Mass Digitization, Critical Digitization and How to Create Representative Repositories
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keywords
digitalisering av svenskt tryck, DST, massdigitalisering, kritisk digitalisering, digitisation, national bibliography, Swedish printed material, union catalogue, critical digitisation, mass digitisaltion
in
Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria
volume
2022
pages
13 pages
publisher
Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet
ISSN
0076-1648
DOI
10.48202/24139
project
SRNB – en databas för svenskt digitaliserat tryck
Historical Research and Digitization of Rare Books
DigitalHistory@Lund
language
Swedish
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yes
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21a1a8d1-01e9-4f94-bd86-341505ed31ad
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https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/24139/22076
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2022-08-26 15:47:46
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2023-04-12 17:00:36
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  abstract     = {{The Swedish National Library published together with the university libraries in Gothenburg, Lund, Stockholm, Umeå and Uppsala in January 2020 a Declaration of Intent where the goal to digitiz Swedish print from the 15th century until today was formulated. Based on this objective, the article discusses different digitization strategies in libraries. Mass digitization stands for the rapid digitization of large collections, while critical digitization values the creation of new metadata and careful processes of collecting which books that will be digitized. The article particularly highlights the need for representative corpora in future digitization of “the Swedish print”. If the goal is to provide digitized material that will strengthen democracy and help researchers to formulate new questions, it is central that the corpus of texts that undergo digitization are representative of what they are meant to reflect. Otherwise, researchers risk asking questions about historical change and social development to a collection of texts that cannot answer the question or give misleading answers. National bibliographic is a valuable starting point for this work. The article studies two successful digitization projects of rare books – EEBO in England and VD16 in Germany – which base their metadata on bibliographic projects from the 20th century. Similar approaches in Swedish would encourage digitization that combine mass digitization with critical digitization.}},
  author       = {{Weber, Kajsa}},
  issn         = {{0076-1648}},
  keywords     = {{digitalisering av svenskt tryck; DST; massdigitalisering; kritisk digitalisering; digitisation; national bibliography; Swedish printed material; union catalogue; critical digitisation; mass digitisaltion}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  pages        = {{151--163}},
  publisher    = {{Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet}},
  series       = {{Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria}},
  title        = {{Digitaliseringen av svenskt tryck : Massdigitalisering, kritisk digitalisering och frågan om hur man skapar en representativ korpus}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.48202/24139}},
  doi          = {{10.48202/24139}},
  volume       = {{2022}},
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