Date published: 28/2/20
The Global Digitised Dataset Network (GDD Network) was an AHRC-funded research collaboration from 2019-2020 investigating the feasibility of creating a global catalogue of digitised texts. This would enable people to search and find texts, and access them for reading, digital scholarship, collections analysis, and more.
This is an aggregated dataset of digitised records created by the Global Digitisation Dataset project in 2019, an AHRC funded project under the UK/US Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions networking fund. The records come from the project’s members: HathiTrust, National Library of Scotland, British Library and the National Library of Wales. Each record in the dataset contains limited bibliographic metadata, along with a link to the item. The dataset was created as a proof of concept, merging records of digitised texts from different organisations together.
Related links
Visit the project website: GDD network website
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This data collection is licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34812/fda4-5336
Dataset creator: HathiTrust, National Library of Scotland, British Library, National Library of Wales
Dataset publisher: HathiTrust, National Library of Scotland, British Library, National Library of Wales
Publication year: 2020
Suggested citation: National Library of Scotland. Aggregated dataset of digitised texts from the GDD project, 2020. https://doi.org/10.34812/fda4-5336