Vojtěch Malínek
Chair of the Bibliographical Data Working Group
Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences
The focus of the Bibliographical Data Working Group (BiblioData WG) is to foster cooperation between all the parties involved in the bibliographical data life cycle (especially data producers, managers/curators, researchers, and theorists of documentation and bibliography), which will contribute to the greater and more diverse research use of bibliographical data in the humanities.
Although bibliographical data is central to the humanities, and comprises of numerous services, tools, resources, interested researchers, there are no comprehensive initiatives aimed at addressing the issues of bibliographical data from the perspective of digital humanities and data-driven research. The BiblioData WG is a bottom-up attempt to bring together those different parties in order to build a larger framework for bibliographical data research, and address the main issues that the community is facing.
