Nabil Kashyap / @_nabilk
Lindsay Van Tine / @mlvantine
From catalogers to senior faculty, undergraduates to national agencies, END represents a range of interests.
-Swarthmore English Department
-McCabe Library
-Penn Libraries, Kislak Center for Special Collections
-Council on Library and Information Resources
-Fales Library, New York University
-Price Lab for Digital Humanities
-Undergraduate researchers from Penn, Swarthmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Williams
-creates enhanced bibliographic metadata for early novels held at the University of Pennsylvania and other area repositories
-uses a custom MARC schema to build on existing library catalog records
-trains undergraduate catalogers to produce richly detailed metadata, both controlled and discursive
-makes a ~2000-record dataset available to researchers, in MARCXML as well as json and tabular formats
-MARCXML base records from library OPACs
-supplemental fields, with edition- and copy-specific features of the physical books in Penn's collection
-~2000-record dataset in MARCXML, json, and tabular formats, and focused subsets
-digitized page scans & OCRd fulltext
https://github.com/earlynovels
By Agência de Notícias do Acre [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons
Boundary objects are objects which are both plastic enough to adapt to local needs ... yet robust enough to maintain a common identity ... They have different meanings in different social worlds but their structure is common enough to more than one world to make them recognizable, a means of translation.
Star and Griesemer (1989)
how do heterogeneity and cooperation coexist, and with what consequences for managing information?
Star and Griesemer (1989)
Nabil Kashyap / @_nabilk
Lindsay Van Tine / @mlvantine