{"id":91,"date":"2025-11-03T18:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:34:12","slug":"project-results","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/project-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Top 500 Novels<\/em> project is ongoing, as the dataset continues to evolve alongside updates to OCLC\u2019s WorldCat and ongoing research into literary representation. Because of this, there are no final results, but there are clear findings and patterns that have emerged through the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"647\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-184\" style=\"width:232px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-6.png 647w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-6-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Impact on Librarians<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For librarians, this project is a helpful tool for collection planning. It shows which books are widely held and which ones might be missing from certain collections. This can help libraries make their shelves more balanced and include more diverse voices. It also helps librarians think about how past collecting choices have influenced what people read today.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" style=\"width:237px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5.png 667w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Impact on Researchers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For researchers, the data offers a new way to study the literary canon using real numbers instead of opinions. They can look for trends based on gender, time period, or country and see how culture and bias affect which books are kept in libraries. The open data also makes it easy to reuse for other projects.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Top 500 Novels project is ongoing, as the dataset continues to evolve alongside updates to OCLC\u2019s WorldCat and ongoing research into literary representation. Because of this, there are no final results, but there are clear findings and patterns that have emerged through the process. Impact on Librarians For librarians, this project is a helpful [&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-91","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CAPB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}