Digital Scholarship Guides

This list is by no means exhaustive, but will be continuously added to as we discover more literature that relates to Collections as Data practices that may be helpful for creators and users alike. If you feel we’re missing a critical piece, please reach out to Kiran at kam535@cornell.edu.

• On a Collections as Data Imperative ¹
• WHAT DO WE MEAN BY “COLLECTIONS AS DATA” (CAD)?²
• The Santa Barbara Statement on Collections as Data³
• Vancouver Statement on Collections As Data⁴
• A Checklist to Publish Collections as Data in GLAM Institutions⁵
• On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance, a Collections as Data Case Study⁶ 
• From Digital Library to Open Datasets: Embracing a “Collections as Data”Framework⁷
• Transparency, provenance and collections as data⁸
• The “Collections as ML Data” checklist for machine learning and cultural heritage⁹
• Collections As Data: Preservation to Access to Use to Impact¹⁰
• Collections as Data : interdisciplinary experiments with KBR’s digitised historical newspapers : a Belgian case study¹¹
• Collections as data in the context of visual AI¹²
• Community-owned infrastructure and collections as data praxis¹³ 
• Pushing the Public Art Network Database into the Current Digital Age: Collections as Data¹⁴ 
• Metadata for Collections as Data in a Multi-Institutional Digital Library¹⁵
• From collection search to collections as data¹⁶
• EDUCATING ABOUT THE PAST IN HOPES OF A MORE EQUITABLE FUTURE: Identifying, Building, and Using Collections as Data for Social Justice¹⁷ 
• Structural elements and spheres of expertise: Creating a healthy ecosystem for cultural data initiatives¹⁸
• Ethical Data Considerations for Engaging in Reparative Archival Practice¹⁹

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2. Lampert, Cory, and Emily Lapworth. “What Do We Mean by ‘Collections As Data’ (CAD)? By Cory Lampert & Emily Lapworth.” Blog. UNLV University Libraries, March 2, 2020. https://www.library.unlv.edu/whats-new-special-collections/2020/2020-03/what-do-we-mean-collections-data-cad-cory-lampert-emily. ↩︎
3. Always Already Computational – Collections As Data. “The Santa Barbara Statement on Collections as Data.” Blog, March 3, 2017. https://collectionsasdata.github.io/statement/. ↩︎
4. Padilla, Thomas, Hannah Scates Kettler, Stewart Varner, and Yasmeen Shorish. “Vancouver Statement on Collections as Data.” Zenodo, September 13, 2023, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8342171.
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5. Candela, Gustavo, Nele Gabriëls, Sally Chambers, Thuy-An Pham, Sarah Ames, Neil Fitzgerald, Katrine Hofmann, et al. “A Checklist to Publish Collections as Data in GLAM Institutions.” Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, November 9, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-06-2023-0195. ↩︎
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7. Wittmann, Rachel, Anna Neatrour, Rebekah Cummings, and Jeremy Myntti. “From Digital Library to Open Datasets: Embracing a ‘Collections as Data’ Framework.” Information Technology & Libraries 38, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 49–61. https://doi.org/10.6017/ITAL.V38I4.11101. ↩︎
8. Ames, Sarah. “Transparency, Provenance and Collections as Data: The National Library of Scotland’s Data Foundry.” LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries 31, no. 1 (February 19, 2021): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10371. ↩︎
9. Lee, Benjamin Charles Germain. “The ‘Collections as ML Data’ Checklist for Machine Learning and Cultural Heritage.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology n/a, no. n/a. Accessed September 13, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24765.
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10. Mears, J, A Potter, and K Zwaard. “Collections As Data: Preservation to Access to Use to Impact,” 2017. ↩︎
11. Chambers, Sally, Frédéric Lemmers, Thuy-An Pham, Julie M. Birkholz, Vincent Ducatteeuw, Antoine Jacquet, Wout Dillen, Dilawar Ali, Kenzo Milleville, and Steven Verstockt. “Collections as Data : Interdisciplinary Experiments with KBR’s Digitised Historical Newspapers : A Belgian Case Study.” In DH Benelux 2021, Abstracts, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8712404. ↩︎
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15. Naquin, Elisa, and Leah Duncan. “Metadata for Collections as Data in a Multi-Institutional Digital Library.” Journal of Library Metadata 23, no. 1–2 (April 3, 2023): 43–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2023.2229229. ↩︎
16. Sherratt, Tim. “From Collection Search to Collections as Data: Heritage of the Air,” 1–47, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3551405. ↩︎
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18. Given, Lisa M., Sarah Polkinghorne, and Joann Cattlin. “Structural Elements and Spheres of Expertise: Creating a Healthy Ecosystem for Cultural Data Initiatives.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology75, no. 10 (2024): 1070–86. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24849.
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