TY - JOUR
T1 - Descriptive Cataloging Issues for Non-Western Corpora
T2 - A Case Study of Late Imperial Chinese Books
AU - Shang, Wenyi
AU - Jett, Jacob
AU - Underwood, Ted
AU - Stephen Downie, J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Full-text digital libraries (DL) like the HathiTrust open new analytic opportunities for digital humanists and those studying language-specific corpora such as late imperial Chinese books. These analyses rely on DL metadata records to contextualize and validate findings. However, historic Anglo-American cataloging practices introduce difficulties. Our comparative case study of HathiTrust MARC records for Chinese (1,534), English (25,866), and German (7,872) books (the 1500s–1700s) reveals significant problems: data spread across fields; essential data lacunae; lack of normalization; and information transcribed from sources without translation nor explanation. Cataloging practices need updating to support scholars working with Chinese and other Asian materials.
AB - Full-text digital libraries (DL) like the HathiTrust open new analytic opportunities for digital humanists and those studying language-specific corpora such as late imperial Chinese books. These analyses rely on DL metadata records to contextualize and validate findings. However, historic Anglo-American cataloging practices introduce difficulties. Our comparative case study of HathiTrust MARC records for Chinese (1,534), English (25,866), and German (7,872) books (the 1500s–1700s) reveals significant problems: data spread across fields; essential data lacunae; lack of normalization; and information transcribed from sources without translation nor explanation. Cataloging practices need updating to support scholars working with Chinese and other Asian materials.
KW - Bibliographic metadata
KW - HathiTrust digital library
KW - MARC records
KW - book history
KW - cataloging for digital resources
KW - internationalization of cataloging
KW - late imperial China
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U2 - 10.1080/01639374.2022.2148800
DO - 10.1080/01639374.2022.2148800
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85145367466
SN - 0163-9374
VL - 61
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Cataloging and Classification Quarterly
JF - Cataloging and Classification Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -