Book Size, Book Format: Historical Relationship in the HathiTrust Digital Library Metadata (1500-1799)

Digital libraries create new scholarly possibilities for investigating book format at scale, providing a valuable perspective for book history. This study evaluates the historical relationship between book format and book size using the HathiTrust Digital Library metadata of 133,268 books published...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Online) S. 279 - 281
Hauptverfasser: Shang, Wenyi, Cordell, Ryan, Downie, J. Stephen
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: IEEE 01.06.2023
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Analytical models
Bibliographic metadata
Book history
Digital library
History
Libraries
Machine learning
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ISSN:2575-8152
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Zusammenfassung:Digital libraries create new scholarly possibilities for investigating book format at scale, providing a valuable perspective for book history. This study evaluates the historical relationship between book format and book size using the HathiTrust Digital Library metadata of 133,268 books published between 1500 and 1799. We found that: (1) the size of books generally decreased; (2) smaller book formats gradually replaced larger book formats; and, (3) book size can predict book format relatively accurately. Our findings suggest possible automated improvements to digital library metadata where information about book size is better represented than format, enabling book historians to estimate the prevalence of formats and analyze publication trends.
ISSN:2575-8152
DOI:10.1109/JCDL57899.2023.00059