Published June 30, 2023
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Measuring the Uneven Digitization of Historical Literature
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- 3. Le Mans Université
- 4. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum
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Did the mass digitization of historical literature produce a digital archive that accurately reflects what was published in the eighteenth century? I compare four databases of English literature, manually identifying authorial gender, to show a surprising over-representation of women's writing in Eighteenth Century Collections Online and HathiTrust.
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