Old books and digital publishing : Eighteenth-Century Collections Online / Stephen H. Gregg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregg, Stephen H., 1960- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524.

Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Publishers and publishing--Technological innovations.

Publishers and publishing.

Book industries and trade--Technological innovations.

Book industries and trade.

aBooks--Conservation and restoration--History.

aBooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a history of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, a database of over 180,000 titles. Published by Gale in 2003 it has had an enormous impact of the study of the eighteenth century. Like many commercial digital archives, ECCO's continuing development obscures its precedents. This Element examines its prehistory as, first, a computer catalogue of eighteenth-century print, and then as a commercial microfilm collection, before moving to the digitisation and development of the interfaces to ECCO, as well as Gale's various partnerships and licensing deals. An essential aspect of this Element is how it explores the socio-cultural and technological debates around the access to old books from the 1930s to the present day: Stephen Gregg demonstrates how these contexts powerfully shape the way ECCO works to this day. The Element's aim is to make us better users and better readers of digital archives.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108809382

1108809383

9781108803830

1108803830

9781108767415

1108767419

OCLC:

1237410600