Catalogue descriptions of the Incunabula Collection at the British Library

Catalogue descriptions of the Incunabula Collection at the British Library

The datasets in this collection were produced as part of a research project entitled “Legacies of curatorial voice in the descriptions of incunabula collections at the British Library and their future reuse”. This research was funded under the 2022 Arts and Humanities Research Council and Research Libraries UK Professional Practice Fellowship Scheme and conducted in collaboration with the University of Southampton. The project’s aim is to show how we can use the free corpus analysis software AntConc and approaches from computational linguistic for the purposes of examining catalogue data to study curatorial and cataloguing practice.
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    Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset: Volumes 1-10 copy of github repository
    (2023-07-03)
    British Library
    This dataset includes the github repository used to derive catalogue entries from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library. The dataset was created as part of an AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship project to enable computational analysis with the catalogue descriptions and to encourage further reuse of the descriptions in online resources and in digital scholarship.
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    Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset Metadata: Volumes 1-10
    (2023-06-30)
    British Library
    This dataset includes the combined catalogue entries derived from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library. The dataset was created as part of an AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship project to enable computational analysis with the catalogue descriptions and to encourage further reuse of the descriptions in online resources and in digital scholarship. It consists of the processed csvs from the individual volumes concatenated into one csv.
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