{"id":48,"date":"2025-10-28T00:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:29:37","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-contrast-color\">Top 500 \u201cGreatest\u201d Novels (1021-2015)<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image-11-11-25-at-1.29-AM-1024x238.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image-11-11-25-at-1.29-AM-1024x238.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image-11-11-25-at-1.29-AM-300x70.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image-11-11-25-at-1.29-AM-768x179.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image-11-11-25-at-1.29-AM.jpeg 1503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We wondered about the implications of this claim and about what it means to base ideas of \u201cliterary greatness\u201d on the number of libraries that hold a particular work. How do historical biases in systems of literary production and preservation figure into these kinds of claims? Which libraries\u2019 records are included in the data? And how do we even define what counts as a novel?&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why this project?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We chose this project because the concept of literary greatness, and the bias surrounding it, is fascinating. We wanted to dig more into this research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The 4 W&#8217;s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Who<\/strong> made it: The dataset was compiled by OCLC (the non-profit library cooperative) and then curated for context by Anna Preus and Aashna Sheth.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com\/posts\/top-500-novels\/top-500-novels.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>When<\/strong> it started \/ published: The contextual dataset was published July 1, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Where<\/strong> it is housed: The dataset lives at the Responsible Datasets in Context website (\u201cTop 500 \u2018Greatest\u2019 Novels (1021-2015)\u201d).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>When<\/strong> it ended: It appears to be ongoing, it is still being maintained<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 500 \u201cGreatest\u201d Novels (1021-2015) &#8220;We wondered about the implications of this claim and about what it means to base ideas of \u201cliterary greatness\u201d on the number of libraries that hold a particular work. How do historical biases in systems of literary production and preservation figure into these kinds of claims? Which libraries\u2019 records are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}