23 août 2020
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foxglove, « A brief report on my attempts to understand the make-up and cataloguing of EEBO-TCP », Foxglove, ID : 10.58079/otmh
Q. What exactly is EEBO-TCP made of? A. (digital) copies of (microfilm) copies of works. Q. “Works”? A. Well, no. Specific copies of works, held in libraries. What I think FRBR calls “instances”. Q. FRBR makes me think of unhappy cats. Can you give an example? A. Consider Jeremy Taylor’s 1668 page-turner “XXV sermons preached at Golden-Grove being for the winter half-year beginning on Advent-Sunday until Whit-Sunday”. Two copies of this book from the British Library’s collection, a...