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Catalogues-as-data: practice, principles, and prospects

Year: 2026

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Catalogues are data. And as a precursor to a range of tasks – from using catalogues proxies for understanding the collections they describe to undertaking reparative cataloguing – it is important to get to know that data. This panel draws together practitioners, researchers, and creators of catalogues-as-data to report on novel work that stewards, develops, and advances catalogues-as-data in a range of digital humanities contexts. What will emerge are practices, principles, and prospects for future catalogues-as-data work that are grounded in DH Benelux’s unique interdisciplinary Digital Humanities community. At a time when there are ever fewer barriers to accessing both high-performance computation and machine approaches to computational analysis of catalogue data, we argue that the grounded and critical approaches to catalogues-as-data advanced by this panel are vital interventions.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19284844

Authors: Baker, James, Wilders, Coen, Kahn, Rebecca, Claeyssens, Steven, Lieber, Sven

Institutions: University of Southampton, Rijksmuseum, University of Vienna, National Library of the Netherlands, Royal Library of Belgium

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7151586714

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