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Personal bibliography – instrument to draw a historical portrait of a person, institution, field of science
Personal bibliography – a core for prosopography in a history of science
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Personal bibliography forming a public image of a scientist
1. Dr. Birutė Railienė,
b.railiene@gmail.com
The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
26th Baltic Conference in History of Science 'Science as Profession'
Helsinki, August 21- 22, 2014
2. The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps.
But Biography is about chaps
Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Biography for
Beginners (1905)
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bentley1.html
3. Bibliography is about books, articles...
later – about all published, and now – about all
accesible information, relevant to the index
4. Bibliography for a person
[institution, branch of science, idea, etc.]
is a starting point to know,
a way of conduct,
a source for study,
an instrument to commemorate
5. Methodology of personal bibliographical index
Tradition (institution, copiler, publisher)
Qualification (compiler)
Conception (compiler, person of interest)
6. Biography
Selected works
Memoirs
Bibliography of records
◦ By person
◦ Iconography
◦ About person
Name index
8. Documenting a personal scholarly input
provides data for:
Social network
Institutional datasets
Archive
Bibliography
9. Isolation from the frontier sourcfes of
information
Relying on secondary information sources
Selection of material
10. Personal bibliography by country (national
library OPAC, UDK – 012)
Estonia 351 (data by Mare Kurvet)
Latvia (data missing)
Lithuania 818 (LNB.lt)
11.
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13.
14. Institutional scientific reports - NO
An attachemnt to a CV - NO
An index to a file of copies? – NO
Prosopography – YES, and even more
15. Prosopograhy – a study that identifies and
relates a group of persons or characters
within a particular historical or literary
context (Merriam-Webster dictionary)
Prosopography is based on structured
biographical data; it should not be confused
with biography.
16. Prosopograhy embodies bibliographical data
with the links to documents (original, digital,
etc.)
17. Prosopograhy reports all the information on
such persons that is contained in the
different sources (such as chronicles, letters,
saints' lives, legal documents as well as other
texts like inscriptions and seals) and lists the
respective sources (Prosopography of the
Middle-Byzantine Period)
24. Bibliography – the basis of international
intellectual cooperation (EC Richardson,
1939) – still
25. Bibliography – the basis of international
intellectual cooperation (EC Richardson,
1939) – still
Personal bibliography – instrument to draw a
historical portrait of a person, institution,
field of science
26. Bibliography – the basis of international
intellectual cooperation (EC Richardson,
1939) – still
Personal bibliography – instrument to draw a
historical portrait of a person, institution,
field of science
27. Bibliography – the basis of international
intellectual cooperation (EC Richardson,
1939) – still
Personal bibliography – instrument to draw a
historical portrait of a person, institution,
field of science
Personal bibliography – a core for
prosopography in a history of science
28. Success of application – a thorough and
precise bibliographical performance +
scientific seeking
30. Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo
What is not written, does not exist
31. Richardson, Ernest Cushing. Bibliography – the
basis of international intellectual cooperation
// Proceedings of the Second Convention of
International American Bibliographical and
Library Association. – New York, 1939, p. 42-
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