TY - JOUR
T1 - The HathiTrust Digital Library’s potential for musicology research
AU - Downie, J. Stephen
AU - Bhattacharyya, Sayan
AU - Giannetti, Francesca
AU - Koehl, Eleanor Dickson
AU - Organisciak, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - The HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) is one of the largest digital libraries in the world, containing seventeen million volumes from the collections of major academic and research libraries. In this paper, we discuss the HTDL’s potential for musicology research by providing a bibliometric analysis of the collection as a whole, and of the music materials in particular. A series of case studies illustrates the kinds of musicological research that may be conducted using the HTDL. We highlight several opportunities for improvement and discuss promising future directions for new knowledge creation through the processing and analysis of large amounts of retrospective data. The HTDL presents significant new opportunities to the study of music that will continue to expand as data, metadata and collection enhancements are introduced.
AB - The HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) is one of the largest digital libraries in the world, containing seventeen million volumes from the collections of major academic and research libraries. In this paper, we discuss the HTDL’s potential for musicology research by providing a bibliometric analysis of the collection as a whole, and of the music materials in particular. A series of case studies illustrates the kinds of musicological research that may be conducted using the HTDL. We highlight several opportunities for improvement and discuss promising future directions for new knowledge creation through the processing and analysis of large amounts of retrospective data. The HTDL presents significant new opportunities to the study of music that will continue to expand as data, metadata and collection enhancements are introduced.
KW - Digital humanities
KW - Digital libraries
KW - Distant reading
KW - Musicology
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U2 - 10.1007/s00799-020-00283-7
DO - 10.1007/s00799-020-00283-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078353531
SN - 1432-5012
VL - 21
SP - 343
EP - 358
JO - International Journal on Digital Libraries
JF - International Journal on Digital Libraries
IS - 4
ER -