This repository hosts code for the project 'Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital Scholarship' in relation to the analysis of "transmission" from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (a corpus of which is described at James Baker & Andrew Salway (2019). Creation of the BMSatire Descriptions corpus (Version v1.0) http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3245037) to catalogue records at the Lewis Walpole Library.
This repository contains bibliographic metadata from the Yale University Library made available under a CC0 license. Details of Yale University Library's Open Metadata Service is available on the Yale University Library website. In recognition of their support in the preparation and publication of this data we thank Ellen Cordes, Daniel Lovins, and Yukari Sugiyama.
Unless otherwise stated, code is licensed under a GNU General Public License v3.0.
These records contains descriptions that are structurally raced, sexed, classed, and gendered, in addition to including a small number that contain offensive and insensitive terms. The inclusion of the terms in the datasets and derived datasets in this repository is not an endorsement of such language or an uncritical tolerance of the perpetuation of such language. For our related work on this topic see James Baker and Andrew Salway, ‘Curatorial Labour, Voice and Legacy: Mary Dorothy George and the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, 1930–54’, Historical Research (2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaa026.