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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_2764
dc.contributor.author	Prickman Gregory
dc.title	32 Visual Interpretation of the ISTC. The Atlas of Early Printing and the Material History of Data
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The Atlas of Early Printing is an online resource built with GIS tools to depict the spread and development of printing during the incunable period in Europe. It has been online since 2008 and continues to be developed. The site uses data from the Incunabula Short Title Catalog (ISTC) and other sources, providing a visualisation of the databases from which the data is retrieved. The data being visualised is the result of many decades of cataloguing, arranging, publishing, and migrating; the work that followed was informed by material constraints and has left material traces. For the ISTC, an important period in the development of data formats was the work Margaret Bingham Stillwell undertook from 1924 to 1940 for the bibliography Incunabula in American Libraries, a Second Census. The data she gathered were meticulously coordinated through mailing campaigns and organised on cards, and then translated into print according to the publisher’s requirements. The decisions underlying Stillwell’s descriptions were migrated to Frederick Goff’s Third Census and eventually directly into the first version of the ISTC. The structures she developed serve as the foundation for modern efforts to expand beyond the limitations of the short-title format, and to provide the data for geographic and other visualisations.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi di storia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-02-24
dc.dateAccepted	2019-11-05
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-04-11
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-333-5/32-visual-interpretation-of-the-istc/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-332-8/032
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9883
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9107
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-333-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-332-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	15th Century Booktrade
dc.subject	15th Century Booktrade
dc.subject	Book History
dc.subject	Book History
dc.subject	Data Archaeology
dc.subject	Data Archaeology
dc.subject	Data Provenance
dc.subject	Data Provenance
dc.subject	Data Visualisation
dc.subject	Data Visualisation
dc.subject	Frederick Goff
dc.subject	Frederick Goff
dc.subject	GIS
dc.subject	GIS
dc.subject	History of Data
dc.subject	History of Data
dc.subject	ISTC
dc.subject	ISTC
dc.subject	Incunabula
dc.subject	Incunabula
dc.subject	Margaret Bingham Stillwell
dc.subject	Margaret Bingham Stillwell
dc.subject	Second Census
dc.subject	Second Census
dc.subject	Short Title
dc.subject	Short Title
dc.subject	Third Census
dc.subject	Third Census

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32 Visual Interpretation of the ISTC

The Atlas of Early Printing and the Material History of Data

Gregory Prickman Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, US

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The Atlas of Early Printing is an online resource built with GIS tools to depict the spread and development of printing during the incunable period in Europe. It has been online since 2008 and continues to be developed. The site uses data from the Incunabula Short Title Catalog (ISTC) and other sources, providing a visualisation of the databases from which the data is retrieved. The data being visualised is the result of many decades of cataloguing, arranging, publishing, and migrating; the work that followed was informed by material constraints and has left material traces. For the ISTC, an important period in the development of data formats was the work Margaret Bingham Stillwell undertook from 1924 to 1940 for the bibliography Incunabula in American Libraries, a Second Census. The data she gathered were meticulously coordinated through mailing campaigns and organised on cards, and then translated into print according to the publisher’s requirements. The decisions underlying Stillwell’s descriptions were migrated to Frederick Goff’s Third Census and eventually directly into the first version of the ISTC. The structures she developed serve as the foundation for modern efforts to expand beyond the limitations of the short-title format, and to provide the data for geographic and other visualisations.

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Feb. 24, 2020

Accepted

Nov. 5, 2019

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April 11, 2019

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978-88-6969-333-5

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978-88-6969-332-8

Keywords: Second Census • Incunabula • Data Visualisation • GIS • Margaret Bingham Stillwell • History of Data • Third Census • ISTC • Book History • Short Title • Data Archaeology • Frederick Goff • 15th Century Booktrade • Data Provenance

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