Comments on: How many texts have been digitized?

By: Lisa Spiro

Lisa Spiro — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:51:48 +0000

Thanks, Dr. Hatheway. I haven’t been to able to figure out how to get an alert when Google adds new books that match particular criteria, but the new Google Book Search gadget does provide recommendations that aren’t bad, in my limited experience with it: http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=www.google.com/ig/modules/books/library_gadget.xml&source=bsha

By: Dr. Allen W. Hatheway

Dr. Allen W. Hatheway — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:55:24 +0000

Lisa: Your piece has been doubly helpful to me! Just in understanding how to improve my productivity. Do you have any idea of how one might push Google Books, for instance, to receive an alert when it posts new books with certain keyword content? That would boost Google’s utility to we serious researchers!

Retired Professor of Geological Engineering
University of Missouri

By: Using Google Books to Research Publishing History « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:53:48 +0000

[...] I plan to discuss my study examining how many of the works in my dissertation bibliography are now available electronically, as well as more recent work using Google Books and other online sources to explore the history of [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:44:50 +0000

Late finding this very interesting blog post, but we’ve been including materials we own into the catalog here at Michigan: http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu . Good metadata (or, as good as you’d expect in a large academic library) and links to the local and Google Books versions.

(I’m another Virginia alum, btw.)

By: Where to go next? « Lisa Spiro’s Research Notes: Bachelor 2.0 Project

Where to go next? « Lisa Spiro’s Research Notes: Bachelor 2.0 Project — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:17:24 +0000

[...] to go next? I’ve completed my inventory of works in my dissertation bibliography now available in a digital form and am now wondering: where next? My grand goal is to remix my dissertation as a work of digital [...]

By: Evaluating the quality of electronic texts « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:31:23 +0000

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By: pobres pero honrados - Tapera

pobres pero honrados - Tapera — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:25:47 +0000

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By: lms4w

lms4w — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:27:00 +0000

Thanks, Bill! That reverse engineering took a lot more work than I thought it would, but I was pretty curious to see the results. By the way, I’m loving The Programming Historian (Bill’s excellent, practical primer on programming for non-programmers: http://niche.uwo.ca/programming-historian/index.php/Main_Page)

By: lms4w

lms4w — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:09:45 +0000

@jge– Good point! I’ll be addressing metadata in my next post…

By: William J Turkel

William J Turkel — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:59:08 +0000

Lisa, this is a fascinating result. My hunch has been that a lot more stuff has been digitized than most people think (at least most people who aren’t into digital humanities). But I haven’t seen anyone go through an existing work of scholarship and try to ‘reverse engineer’ the source base in digital form. Bill