• Footprints: A New Approach to (Jewish) Book HIstory

    Author(s):
    Marjorie Lehman, Michelle Margolis Chesner (see profile) , Adam Shear, Joshua Teplitsky
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists, Global DH
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Jewish Studies, Book History, Digital Scholarship
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/jv5m-7y62
    Abstract:
    This article describes and analyzes the methods of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, a digital humanities contribution to book history. Footprints collects and aggregates information about the movement of copies of Hebrew books and books of Judaica in other languages printed in the early modern period (roughly corresponding to the hand-press era) and follows evidence of their movement into the twenty-first century. It stores this information in a relational database in which users can run specific queries and delivers the results in a number of visual representations for analysis and interpretation. Footprints undertakes two concurrent and more open-ended aims: (1) the on-going assemblage of a dataset about post-print mobility based on evidence other than the printed text (e.g. marginalia, catalog records, archival letters, other printed texts); and (2) the creation and iterative refining of a scholarly instrument to analyze the dataset through computational methods and modes of representation.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1163/1872471x-bja10061
    Publisher:
    Brill
    Pub. Date:
    2023
    Journal:
    European Journal of Jewish Studies
    Volume:
    17
    Page Range:
    1 - 30
    ISSN:
    1872-471X
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    9 months ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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