New Report: “Early American Cookbooks: Creating and Analyzing a Digital Collection Using the HathiTrust Research Center Portal”
The following report and digital collections were written/curated by Gioia Stevens from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Title
Early American Cookbooks: Creating and Analyzing a Digital Collection Using the HathiTrust Research Center Portal
Authors
Gioia Stevens
The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Source
CUNY Academic Works (IR)
(Capstone Project)
Abstract
The Early American Cookbooks project is a carefully curated online collection of 1450 cookbooks published in the United States between 1800 and 1920. The purposes of the project are to create a freely available, searchable online collection of early American cookbooks, to offer an overview of the scope and contents of the collection, and to use digital humanities tools to explore trends and patterns in the metadata and the full text of the collection. The project has two basic components: a collection of 1450 full-text titles on HathiTrust and a website site to present a guide to the collection and the results of the digital humanities analysis.
Direct to Full Text Report (43 pages; PDF)
Resources
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis&c=1934413200
Early American Cookbooks website
https://wp.nyu.edu/early_american_cookbooks/
Archived website as a WARC file, created using webrecorder.io
Filed under: Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, News

About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
https://archive-it.org/collections/4848