BookLab — Chapter 11: Data

April 14, 2025

James Gleick, “To Throw the Power of Thought into Wheel-Work” from The Information (2011), resource via library
Meredith L. McGill, “Format” (2018), resource via library
Jessica Marie Johnson, “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads” (2018), resource via library
Benjamin Lee, “Compounded Mediation: A Data Archaeology of the Newspaper Navigator Dataset” (2021), external website
Browse, Anna’s Archive, Winners of the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty (2024)

Lorraine Daston, “Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective” (1992), resource via library
Daniel Rosenberg, “Data Before the Fact,” in Raw Data is an Oxymoron (2013), resource via library
Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson, “Introduction” to Raw Data is an Oxymoron (2013), resource via library
Katie Rawson and Trevor Muñoz, “Against Cleaning” (2016), external website
Ryan Cordell, “‘Q i-jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously” (2017), external website
Cassidy Holahan, “Rummaging in the Dark: ECCO as Opaque Digital Archive” (2021), resource via library
Library of Congress Format Blog posts:
- Kate Murray, Marcus Nappier, and Liz Holdzkom, “Fun with File Formats” (2021), external website
- Jacob Kowall and Hillary Szu Yin Shiue, “All Hyped Up for HyperCard: Further Adventures with an Apple Legacy Format” (2021), external website