Mapping Knowledge

This conference is co-organised with the Short Title Catalogue Vlaanderen (STCV), who are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a programme of events.

The Conference will take place at the KBR Brussels on 26-27 June 2025. We invite scholars and library professionals to join us in Brussels to discuss current and future (re)use of RNB data. If you wish to attend, we invite you to send your registration to secretariat@cerl.org.

The aim is to address how these data are used in different contexts. Topics of interest include:

• opportunities and pitfalls of data exchange between catalogues and bibliographies
• current use of RNB data for book historical research
• how to facilitate and encourage (future) researchers to use bibliographical data (we created a list of what is available in Europe)
• how to capture research results into RNB
• what types of bibliographical data are the most likely candidates for re-use in different contexts
• the role of digital humanities in RNB data use, such as data visualisation

Speakers include:

• Thomas Wallnig, University of Vienna, Reusing Bibliographical Data: Perspectives and Challenges in the Digital Humanities
• Matthias Reif, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Challenges on the Path to a Common User Interface for VD 16, VD 17, and VD 18
• Esther van Gelder and Silke Karsenberg, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, the Short Title Catalogue Netherlands as (linked) dataset
• Tereza Kazmirowska, Putting Prague’s Baroque Book Printing on the Map: Visualizing Printing Production Data from the Czech National Retrospective Bibliography
• Christian Scheidegger, Zentralbibiothek Zurich, The Bibliography of Zurich Prints 1479-1800, making a CERL database out of a printed bibliography and library catalogue
• Alyssa Steiner, British Library, Visualising the ISTC
• Mª Pilar Martínez Olmo and Juan Gomis Coloma, Mapping Pliegos. A Digital Portal for Access to the Collections of Spanish Chapbooks existing in European Libraries
• Mikko Tolonen, Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki