@inproceedings{f578d7ea66354185895e8628ee7f539b,
title = "Book Size, Book Format: Historical Relationship in the HathiTrust Digital Library Metadata (1500-1799)",
abstract = "Digital libraries create new scholarly possibilities for investigating book format at scale, providing a valuable perspective for book history. This study evaluates the historical relationship between book format and book size using the HathiTrust Digital Library metadata of 133,268 books published between 1500 and 1799. We found that: (1) the size of books generally decreased; (2) smaller book formats gradually replaced larger book formats; and, (3) book size can predict book format relatively accurately. Our findings suggest possible automated improvements to digital library metadata where information about book size is better represented than format, enabling book historians to estimate the prevalence of formats and analyze publication trends.",
keywords = "Bibliographic metadata, Book history, Digital library, Machine learning",
author = "Wenyi Shang and Ryan Cordell and Downie, {J. Stephen}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 IEEE.; 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2023 ; Conference date: 26-06-2023 Through 30-06-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1109/JCDL57899.2023.00059",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "279--281",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2023",
address = "United States",
}