Bibliography as Applied
Data Set
The Susanna Rowson Digital Compendium
Spencer D. C. Keralis
Director for Digital Scholarship,
Research Associate Professor
University of North Texas
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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
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the UNT College of Information, and the Council on Library and Information
Resources.
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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 (17621824) – 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 Universityindependent hosting.
• Periodic evaluation to determine scaled obsolescence.
The Lowly Bibliography
Susanna Rowson. Love and Romance: Charlotte
and Lucy Temple. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott &
Co., 1864.
Primary Sources
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.
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.
Secondary Sources
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.
Bibliographic Analysis
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Departmental Outputs
Determine what a department is actually good at by the
work its students produce
Identify trends in interdisciplinarity
Examine intellectual genealogies and lines of influence –
networks and associations
Challenge the centrality of citation indices for
understanding a given work’s place in the academy
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