The Susanna Rowson Digital Compendium

Spencer D. C. KeralisDirector for Digital Scholarship,

Research Associate ProfessorUniversity of North Texas

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Bibliography as Applied Data Set

The DataRes Project, funded by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians grant from the IMLS, investigates how the library and information science (LIS) profession can best respond to emerging needs of research data management in universities.DataRes is a collaboration between the University of North Texas Libraries, the UNT College of Information, and the Council on Library and Information Resources.

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everythingData is:

necessary for reproducible science.Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

everythingData is:

“…while data doesn’t lie, it does allow people to deceive themselves and others. In some cases it's a question of the bigger the data, the grander the deception.”

Michael Moritz“Are We All Being Fooled By Big Data?”http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130103045241-25760-are-we-all-being-fooled-by-big-data

The Susanna Rowson Digital Compendium

• Seeks to pioneer a reassessment of bibliography as a core humanities information set.

• Faculty Partnership – University of North Texas, New York University, University of Texas – Arlington, Louisiana State University.

• Infrastructure Partnership – UNT Libraries & the MetaArchive Cooperative.

The Susanna Rowson Digital Compendium

• Susanna Rowson (1762-1824) – actress, playwright, songstress, novelist, educationalist.

• Transatlantic figure.• Limited corpus. • Last definitive bibliography

from 1934.

The Susanna Rowson Digital Compendium

• Primary works bibliography to incorporate innovations from recent bibliographic work and digital resources.

• Authoritative, clean e-texts.• Institutional partnerships to explore University-

independent hosting.• Periodic evaluation to determine scaled obsolescence.

Susanna Rowson. Love and Romance: Charlotte and Lucy Temple. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1864.

The Lowly Bibliography

Mrs. Rowson. Charlotte Temple,: A Tale of Truth. New-Haven: Published by Bronson, Walter and Co., 1808.

Mrs. Rowson. Charlotte Temple. A Tale of Truth. Philadelphia: Published by Mathew Carey, No. 122, Market Street, 1809. Eighth American Edition.

Mrs. Rowson. The History of Charlotte Temple. A tale of Truth. [New Haven]: Printed for Increase Cooke & Co., 1811.

Mrs. Rowson. Charlotte Temple. A tale of truth. Philadelphia: Published by Mathew Carey, No. 125 Market Street, 1812.

Mrs. Rowson. Charlotte Temple. A tale of truth. New York: Evert Duyckinck, No. 102 Pear St, George Long, Printer, 1814.

Mrs. Rowson. Charlotte Temple : a tale of truth. New-York: : [s.n.], Printed and published, in the year 1816.

Primary Sources

The Susanna Rowson Digital Compendium

• Crowd-sourced secondary bibliography.• Linked data relationships with established metadata

intensive records (MARC, LOC).• User-assigned tagging of secondary resources to

respond to disciplinary use, perceptions.• Disambiguated metadata to allow for reports, text

analysis, mapping, and visualizations.• Modeling and mapping interdisciplinarity.• Bibliographic data & metadata, clean OCR – all Open

Access.• Editorial contributions all CC 2 or 3.

Peter Allerton and Matthew Calarco, Editors. Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought. London & New York: Continuum, 2006.

 The Animal Studies Group. Killing Animals. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press,

2006, Una Chaudhuri. “(De)Facing the Animals: Zooësis and Performance.” TDR: The Drama

Review 51:1 (T193) Spring 2007, Una Chaudhuri and Shonni Enelow. “Animalizing Performance, Becoming-Theatre: Inside

Zooësis with the Animal Project at NYU.” Theatre Topics. Volume 16, Number 1, March 2006, pp. 1-17.

Jacques Derrida. The Animal that Therefore I am. Marie-Louise Mallet, Editor. David Wills, Translator. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

Diana Donald. “Pangs Watched in Perpetuity: Sir Edwin Landseer’s Pictures of Dying Deer and the Ethos of Victorian Sportsmanship.” The Animal Studies Group. Killing Animals. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006, pp. 50-68.

 John R. Edson “Slave’s Friend.” R. Gordon Kelly, editor. Children’s Periodicals of the

United States. Westport & London: Greenwood Press, 1984, pp. 408-411.

Secondary Sources

Electronic Theses & DissertationsDepartmental Outputs

Determine what a department is actually good at by the work its students produce

Identify trends in interdisciplinarityExamine intellectual genealogies and lines of influence –

networks and associationsChallenge the centrality of citation indices for

understanding a given work’s place in the academy

Bibliographic Analysis

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