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Synthesizing digital libraries and digital humanities perspectives for illuminating under-investigated complexities associated with user-generated book reviews

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JCDL '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Article No.: 50, Pages 1 - 2

https://doi.org/10.1145/3529372.3530947

Published: 20 June 2022 Publication History

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The abundance of user-generated book reviews has opened up unprecedented research opportunities for digital humanities (DH) research. However, there remains a dearth of attention to the complexities and scholarly usabilities of such web data. Given digital libraries (DL) expertise in web archives and scholarly datasets, my thesis explores how to synthesize DL and DH to illuminate the under-examined complexities (namely temporal changes, cultural divergence, and user power dynamics) associated with usergenerated book reviews and improve the scholarly usability of such emergent data provisions.

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Hu YLayne-Worthey GMartaus ADownie JDiesner J(2023)Research with User-Generated Book Review Data: Legal and Ethical Pitfalls and Contextualized MitigationsInformation for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity10.1007/978-3-031-28035-1_13(163-186)Online publication date: 13-Mar-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-28035-1_13

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Synthesizing digital libraries and digital humanities perspectives for illuminating under-investigated complexities associated with user-generated book reviews
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Digital libraries and archives
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Digital libraries and archives

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JCDL '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

June 2022

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ISBN:9781450393454

DOI:10.1145/3529372

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National Institute of Informatics, Japan
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University of Hildesheim, Germany
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GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
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University of Waikato, New Zealand
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GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
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TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences), Germany

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Hu YLayne-Worthey GMartaus ADownie JDiesner J(2023)Research with User-Generated Book Review Data: Legal and Ethical Pitfalls and Contextualized MitigationsInformation for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity10.1007/978-3-031-28035-1_13(163-186)Online publication date: 13-Mar-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-28035-1_13

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