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Wikipedia as an Echo Chamber of Canonicity: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Jonas Rohe, Viktor J. Illmer, Lisa Poggel, Frank Fischer
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
The idea of using the number of Wikipedia sitelinks as part of the “Metrics of World Literature” as “a simple measure of canonicity”, has been gaining traction. We aim to adapt the idea that multiple language versions can serve as a marker of canonicity to a specific canon project.
From Canon to Score: Quantifying, Measuring, and Comparing Canonisation
Judith Brottrager
TU Darmstadt, Germany
This contribution introduces a numerical canonisation score to measure and compare the canonicity of texts in English and German literary corpora. By generating doc2vec embeddings and calculating text similarities, it examines the influence of canonised works on subsequent literary production.
Book List Framework: A proposed data structure standard for book lists
Alexandra Elizabeth Wingate1, Ferran Escrivà Llorca2
1Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America; 2Universitat de València, Spain
Presentation of a generic structure for book list data (transcriptions and book identification data) based on IFLA's FRBR standard to enhance interoperability and reuse of book list data among book historians for better analyses. We will discuss the structure and its use in two case studies.
