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  1. Checking the National Records of Scotland web catalogue is reminding me again how much I wish it allowed wildcards or fuzzy name searches. Searching for someone called Fowler circa 1600 - even a courtier whose job was writing stuff (secretary for the queen) - requires a lot of variant name searches! #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #NRS #Archives #Catalogues #Catalogs #Search #Histodon #Histodons

  2. @bloodymar @histodons @journalism

    We have also a much larger dataset on holdings based on data from HathiTrust, German union catalogues, and AUB library. I haven't found the time to turn it into an actual website / catalogue (my original was to move most data to Wikidata for others to reference and re-use). You can find this dataset at github.com/OpenArabicPE/author

    It would be great to be able to use Worldcat data but their API is famously inaccessible to not-so-wealthy institutions.

    #AuthorityFiles #ArabicPeriodicals #LibraryHoldings #Catalogues