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The list was a foundation for Pearson’s 2018 [https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/lyell Lyell Lectures], to be published as ''Book ownership in Stuart England'' (Oxford University Press, 2021), where a version of it will be included as the Appendix. As the purposes of the original online simple list are now superseded by BOO and by this book, the list on the Bibliographical Society site has been expanded to cover both the 16th and 17th centuries. | The list was a foundation for Pearson’s 2018 [https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/lyell Lyell Lectures], to be published as ''Book ownership in Stuart England'' (Oxford University Press, 2021), where a version of it will be included as the Appendix. As the purposes of the original online simple list are now superseded by BOO and by this book, the list on the Bibliographical Society site has been expanded to cover both the 16th and 17th centuries. | ||
| − | BOO has been developed as a digital publication by Dr Matthew Symonds and Clodagh Murphy of CELL, using [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki] ([ | + | BOO has been developed as a digital publication by Dr Matthew Symonds and Clodagh Murphy of CELL, using [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki] ([https://www.bookowners.online/index.php?title=Special:Version details]). It aims to become established as a freely available online reference source, supported by the Bibliographical Society, and has deliberately been planned with the potential to expand both chronologically and geographically, and to enable the widening of the team of people who can directly input and edit data. |
It will never be perfect, and it will never be complete. Many entries have possibilities for expansion or refinement, based on more research with surviving books or documentary sources, and the addition of references. Databases like this are dynamic, easily edited, intended to be continuously revised. It is hoped that the existence of BOO will prompt custodians to identify books with information or images which could usefully enhance it, and submit material which will improve it. | It will never be perfect, and it will never be complete. Many entries have possibilities for expansion or refinement, based on more research with surviving books or documentary sources, and the addition of references. Databases like this are dynamic, easily edited, intended to be continuously revised. It is hoped that the existence of BOO will prompt custodians to identify books with information or images which could usefully enhance it, and submit material which will improve it. | ||
Revision as of 07:00, 6 May 2020
Book Owners Online is authored by the book historian David Pearson, published by the UCL Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), and generously funded by the Bibliographical Society and the Board of Electors to the James PR Lyell Readership in Bibliography at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library.
BOO began life as a simple listing of 17th-century book owners posted online as a work in progress on the website of the Bibliographical Society, and on the "BibSite" of the Bibliographical Society of America. That list was always envisaged as a precursor to a fuller directory.
The list was a foundation for Pearson’s 2018 Lyell Lectures, to be published as Book ownership in Stuart England (Oxford University Press, 2021), where a version of it will be included as the Appendix. As the purposes of the original online simple list are now superseded by BOO and by this book, the list on the Bibliographical Society site has been expanded to cover both the 16th and 17th centuries.
BOO has been developed as a digital publication by Dr Matthew Symonds and Clodagh Murphy of CELL, using Semantic MediaWiki (details). It aims to become established as a freely available online reference source, supported by the Bibliographical Society, and has deliberately been planned with the potential to expand both chronologically and geographically, and to enable the widening of the team of people who can directly input and edit data.
It will never be perfect, and it will never be complete. Many entries have possibilities for expansion or refinement, based on more research with surviving books or documentary sources, and the addition of references. Databases like this are dynamic, easily edited, intended to be continuously revised. It is hoped that the existence of BOO will prompt custodians to identify books with information or images which could usefully enhance it, and submit material which will improve it.
