Why physical books still matter in a digital world
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The document discusses the history and processes of bibliography, which studies texts and their transmission over time. It outlines different types of bibliography such as enumerative, historical, analytical, and descriptive bibliography. The document also examines the "life of books" and the various parties involved in their production, distribution, and consumption such as authors, publishers, printers, booksellers, and readers. New digital technologies are transforming bibliographic research and book history, allowing tools like watermark databases and digitized collections. However, the physical book still retains value and digital formats introduce new complexities around preservation and versioning.
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- 2. MA LIS / MA ARM / MA Digital Humanities http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/teaching/modules/instg012/
- 3. “ Bibliography is the discipline that studies texts as recorded forms, and the processes of their transmission, including their production and reception.” ~ D.F. McKenzie
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- 7. Communications Circuit Economic & social conjuncture Author Publisher Printers: Compositors Pressmen Warehousemen Suppliers: Paper Ink Type Labour Shippers: Agents Smugglers Entrepot Keeper Waggoner, etc. Booksellers: Wholesellers Retailers Peddlers Binders, etc. Readers: Purchasers Borrowers Clubs Libraries Political & legal sanctions Intellectual influences & publicity After Darnton
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- 9. Recording watermarks From: http://watermark.kb.nl/
- 10. Electron radiography of watermarks From: http://watermark.kb.nl/
- 11. Online searchable watermark databases Also: http://www.wm-portal.net/niki/index.php From: http://watermark.kb.nl/
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- 16. Versioning in the digital collection http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/cmsw/burns/
- 18. “ Extreme Versioning” Barker & Lucas, “Wicked Bible” 1631 Borel’s singes dactylographes more likely to produce millions of errors than text of the quality of Shakespeare ... But is it the quantity or the quality of error that really matters?
- 21. Store them? Preserve them? How?
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