class 1:
The Digital Library
and its (Dis)Contents
Stanford Continuing Studies, Fall 2008
Glen Worthey
Stanford University Libraries
[email protected]
What happens when we change
the shape of a book?
Pioneers
Vannevar Bush (1890-1974)
Pioneers
Fr. Roberto Busa (1913- )
Digitus Dei est hic!
The finger of God is here!
Building Blocks
Data
and
Metadata
data
metadata: 1968
metadata: 2008
<STAGE TYPE="EXIT"> Exeunt Claudius and Polonius </STAGE>
<SP WHO="HAM.18">
<SPEAKER> Hamlet </SPEAKER>
<L N="58"> To be, or not to be; that is the question:
<L N="59"> Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
<L N="60"> The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
<L N="61"> Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
<L N="62"> And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep -<L N="63"> No more, and by a sleep to say we end
<L N="64"> The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
<L N="65"> That flesh is heir to -- 'tis a consummation
<L N="66"> Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep.
<L N="67"> To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
...
data
<STAGE TYPE="EXIT"> Exeunt Claudius and Polonius </STAGE>
<SP WHO="HAM.18">
<SPEAKER> Hamlet </SPEAKER>
<L N="58"> To be, or not to be; that is the question: </L>
<L N="59"> Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer</L>
<L N="60"> The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,</L>
<L N="61"> Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,</L>
<L N="62"> And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep -- </L>
<L N="63"> No more, and by a sleep to say we end</L>
<L N="64"> The heartache and the thousand natural shocks</L>
<L N="65"> That flesh is heir to -- 'tis a consummation</L>
<L N="66"> Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep.</L>
<L N="67"> To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
</L>
...
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[...]
Ham.
To be, or not to be- that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
[...]
data + metadata??
Markup and the MLs:
Standard Generalized Markup Language
HyperText Markup Language
eXtensible Markup Language
Accuracy
book: 1741 / 2001
book(?!): 1741 / 2001
New books?
New libraries?
New readers?
A whole new kind of reading?
library and readers: 1891
new libraries, new readers: 1950s
new libraries, new readers: 1960s
new library,
new reader: 1968
new libraries, new reader: 2008
book: 1687
book(?): 1905
hypertext novel
on CD-ROM
(Figurski at
Findhorn on Acid,
by Rich Holeton)
book(?): 1997
collection: 1880
(books, drawings and toys of
Leland Stanford, Jr.)
collection: 1910
(from the University Museum)
collection: 2008
(Stanford Historical
Photograph Collection)
(digital!)
Futurists
Kevin Kelly (1952- )
et al.
Futurist?
Anthony Grafton (1950- )
future reading(?): 2006
future reading(?): 2008
reader: 1968
Краткая
литературная
энциклопедия
reader(?): 1968
reading(?): 1905-2005
Image credits
slides 9, 10, 21-24, 26, 29, 34, 35:
Stanford Historical Photograph Collection
http://collections.stanford.edu/shpc/
slides 4, 5:
Life Magazine 19(11), 1945
slides 17-19:
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO
slide 27:
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/
slide 33:
http://wordle.net/
slide 36:
Oxford English Dictionary
http://dictionary.oed.com/