Climate metadata, 1789-c.1860

icoads.noaa.gov

Logbook Digitization in the 1920s

Wallbrink, H. and F.B. Koek, Data Acquisition And Keypunching Codes For Marine Meteorological Observations At The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, 1854–1968

Digitized logbooks, c. 1930

Wallbrink and Koek

Interactivity

Ngrams: 3 2044

Words the drop off between 1918-1922 and 1923-1927

• uterus

• spleen

• tuberculosis

• pulmonary

Some corpora in bookworms already:

1. Open Library (1 million books)
2. Hathi Trust (4 million books)
3. Medical Heritage Library (250,000 thousand medical books)
4. Chronicling America (6 million newspaper pages, USA 1850-1922)
5. (4 million medical articles, 1500-1950, titles only)
6. Arxiv.org (c. 600,000 science article, 1995-present)

An example narrative: British parliament

"Nearest Neighbor" book searching

1,000,000 books

Some questions:

• How do classifications shape what gets written?
• How do state classifications (Library of Congress) inform and disagree with "academic" classifications (eg., JSTOR)
• How can machine classification help us to understand classification?
• What does government classification have to do with government security classification?