Some Lessons from Counting Names, Person Records, and Short Person Records

In 2019-2020, we completed the project of counting the editions in the library catalog, and we concluded that there are 7,122 editions. This month, after completing a massive multi-year effort to editorially address every name in the catalog listed as an author, our most recent counts tell us that there are: 3320 names listed in … Continue reading Some Lessons from Counting Names, Person Records, and Short Person Records

Technical Description of The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing

[Note: This post was originally published on January 18, 2020. It was updated significantly for peer review submission on August 14, 2020.]   The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing project is hosted on the DH server at Santa Clara University and uses PHP for its source code. The project is conceptually divided into two parts: … Continue reading Technical Description of The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing