Dear GCD Board Members,
I work at the Lilly Library, a large rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library located in Bloomington, Indiana, on the campus of Indiana University. We have a large (and growing) collection of comic books, with significant donations from some collectors that I am sure you know, Bob Klein and Michael Uslan.
With this message, I would like to start a conversation about a possible collaborative project based on your Grand Comics Database.
The standard ways that libraries catalog books do not work well for comics. Writers and artists change, series are rebooted. Most importantly, no library system captures much information about characters, themes, genres, and visual imagery—just the kinds of information that library users would like to have.
I have often been approached by staff at my library asking to enhance our admittedly poor description of our comics, but we won’t get anywhere by individual, piecemeal efforts. What we need to do is leverage the description that
already exists, and yours is some of the best description out there.
My idea is to create a shared national database of comic book information that would allow for user tagging (for themes, characters, etc.) and for libraries to indicate if they own that particular issue.
An ideal solution would be a partnership with your site. We could pursue a large grant to support growing the GCD to include library holdings and enhance the ability for crowdsourcing of subject and thematic information. Your large trove of data and your international scope are attractive from my perspective. If you are willing to discuss a possible partnership, we can discuss how a potential project could serve your organization’s needs.
I know your site shares your data, so I could use that data to create a libraries-only resource, or even a database just for Lilly Library comics. However, better descriptive access to comics is a need for libraries around the world, making a collaboration with your organization a better solution. A collaboration would also be more appealing to potential funders. With such a project, we could solve problems for libraries, provide a great service to collectors and researchers, and make your site even better than it already is.
If you are willing to discuss the idea, I would love to talk with you. I can easily set up a phone or video conference, or we could explore meeting in person.
Thank you for your consideration.
Erika Dowell
Associate Director & Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts
Lilly Library, Indiana University
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Excellent! I hope you can have some fruitful discussions.
- Don Milne
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It may also be useful to be aware that these folks are still working on their research project: http://www.whatwerecomics.com/about/ . They are using our data as a base.
- Don Milne
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I never heard back.
Nor did I ever follow up.
On Sat, Dec 7, 2019, 6:24 PM Tony <tonyro...@gmail.com> wrote:
Lionel, did you ever hear any more? Do you think that it's worth following up on?
tony
On Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 8:49:43 PM UTC-6, Lionel wrote:No, last we spoke (probably in June) she was planning on talking to colleagues in other libraries at an upcoming conference. I haven't heard back from her. But from the conversations we did have, she was interested in being able to have their catalog tap directly into the DB, but didn't have any specific needs identified. I don't think she'd thought that far ahead.
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:50 PM Jochen G. <gcd...@garcke.de> wrote:
Did something come out of this ?
Jochen
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"I’ve been working on gathering collaborators and figuring out what the project team will look like. Right now, I thinking of the project team as nine people. Six librarians and three GCD representatives, with three primary work teams addressing respectively:
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I’d be very interested in this seeing as it dovetails with one of my academic areas. However, the interim position I accepted for three months is now well into its third year.
Still, I’d be interested and I pretty much speak the language.
Matt
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If I understand the proposal correctly, and it is entirely possible I do not, then the purpose is to produce a National Union Catalog of Comic Books which would be akin to the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collection or the National Union Catalog [of Books] which are really tailored to collections in the United States. It would be a cataloging tool to provide sameness for institutional collections of comic books.
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I won’t argue that at all but what does one have to do with the other? This project, if implemented, won’t impact GCD content. Because we are international we can’t aid in a national project?
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Sure, I'm fine with that.
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