Eileen Clancy (City University of NY) discusses the ideas behind Beyond Citation, a project from students in the Digital Praxis Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center that seeks to understand how “databases shape the questions that can be asked and the arguments that can be made by scholars through search interfaces, algorithms, and the items that are contained in or absent from their collections.” Shortcomings of databases include OCR errors and difficulty locating the provenance information necessary to properly contextualize search results.
The Beyond Citation project plans to launch an early version of its website in May 2014 that aggregates “bibliographic information about major humanities databases so that scholars can understand the significance of the material they have gleaned.”
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Really curious to see the work that comes out of @beyondcitation h/t @DHandLib http://t.co/VPooAen4H6
me too! RT @sp_meta: Really curious to see the work that comes out of @beyondcitation h/t @DHandLib http://t.co/QxrKac1Zt2
Thanks to @DHandLib for the write-up of Beyond Citation! http://t.co/RC1W0haNST
Very intrigued by this. RT @DHandLib: PROJECT: Beyond Citation, from @beyondcitation http://t.co/F3c7rZvOCm
Me, too: RT @coblezc: Very intrigued by this. RT @DHandLib: PROJECT: Beyond Citation, from @beyondcitation http://t.co/NHAqbHdy9t