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Item St. Dunstan editions prices, 1903-2024(2024) Hovde, SarahThis is a dataset of auction and sale prices between 1903 and 2024 for the St. Dunstan Illuminated Editions, a set of de luxe editions published by George D. Sproul between 1901-1904.Item Who wrote this?? And who is an author, anyway? AI authors in the catalog(2024-06-05) Hovde, SarahOver the last decade or so, generative processes have increasingly captured public attention, from the fever dream images of early neural nets to the more recent proliferation of chatbots and language models. A 2021 post on the PCCLIST cataloging listserv about a book "co-authored" by a transformer language model led to an almost week-long discussion over whether the AI was truly an author or just a tool. In the intervening years, AI-created books have proliferated on online bookselling and book rating platforms, and sometimes even library collections. Just as reference and instruction librarians have risen to the challenge of teaching about LLMs and chatbots, catalogers should be prepared to encounter and describe resources created by computational processes. This lightning talk will quickly review the history and current state of computer-generated texts, and touch on the evolution of the concept of authorship in cataloging standards. It will then bring these historical threads together to consider how catalogers can represent how computer-generated texts with current cataloging tools and standards, and speculate on some alternative options for the future.Item When is an Author Not an Author? Non-human and Fictional Creators under LRM, RDA, and Other Cataloging Standards(2023-06-27) Hovde, SarahGenerative processes have captured the public attention in recent years, from the fever dream images of early neural nets to the more recent proliferation of chatbots and language models. In the world of cataloging, a 2021 post on the PCCLIST cataloging listserv about a book "co-authored" by a transformer language model led to an almost week-long discussion over whether the AI was truly an author or just a tool. But generative texts are not new, and catalogers are no strangers to determining who counts as an author: the question of whether non-humans, including animals and fictional characters, can author a work of literature has been a topic of intense deliberation as the cataloging world moves toward the implementation of the Official RDA Toolkit, a cataloging standard based on the Library Reference Model (LRM). The LRM holds that fictional characters, and non-human entities more broadly, cannot be Persons or Agents (and for good measure, that fictional places cannot be Places); however, catalogers are still faced with books written by mouse detectives, starship captains, ghosts, Muppets, and presidential pets. How does a cataloger balance faithfully describing an item as it represents itself with following the rules? Who counts as an author? This presentation will examine the ways that non-human creators are credited in catalog records, looking at the connections between fictional and animal authorship, automatic writing, computer-generated texts, and more. What is a tool, what is a process, and what is an author - at least, according to modern cataloging standards?Item The University of Maryland Libraries WikiProject: Challenges and Delights(2023-06-08) Hovde, Sarah; Doherty, Jennifer; Philips, Rigby; Guay, BethIn June 2020, members of what is now the Cataloging & Metadata Services team launched a project to begin exploring Wikidata, a free and open knowledge base of structured data. Over the next two and a half years, almost two dozen participants created and edited 1,492 Wikidata items related to 1,294 collections from SCUA and SCPA. In the process, UMD's Wikidata editors got to know our special collections, explored a linked data interface, and made library resources more discoverable by users on the open web. This panel features four project participants, who will provide an introduction to the editing project and share some of the challenges, delights, and historical backstories they discovered while working on Wikidata.Item Record added/Page created: leveraging name authority work to highlight women in book history(2019-07-17) Hovde, SarahPresentation given virtually at the Symposium on Women/Gender Minorities in Print/Publishing in the 20th Century (Stanford University, July 17, 2019), discussing the representation of women in book history through library name authority files and open knowledge bases such as Wikipedia and Wikidata.Item How to catalog 100,000 playbills (give or take a few thousand)(2019-01-18) Hovde, SarahPresentation given at the Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History conference (Philadelphia, January 2019), providing an overview of a retrospective conversion and cataloging project undertaken between 2016 and 2019 to provide catalog access to playbill collections in the Folger Shakespeare Library.Item Review of Stauffer, Andrew M.. Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library(Bibliographical Society of America, 2022-12) Hovde, SarahReview of Andrew M. Stauffer. Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.Item The Position of Library-Based Data Services: What Funding Data Can Tell Us(2013) Nilsen, Karl; Dasler, Robin; Muñoz, Trevor; Hovde, SarahAs academic research libraries develop services to support data management and curation, understanding the demand from researchers for new services and establishing parameters for pilot projects are key challenges for managers. Data about proposals and awards for research funding provide evidence about the potential scale, scope, and institutional location of research and data production. Information obtained from funding data can complement and contextualize insights obtained directly from individual researchers about their data management needs. This poster reports on an analysis of funding data conducted by librarians at the University of Maryland, College Park. The authors aimed to discover what funding data can tell librarians about the demand for data management support and the potential challenges for library-based services. The authors also sought to understand the limitations of funding data as a source of information.