From the daily archives: Thursday, November 5, 2009

Author “Significance” From Catalogue Data

By Rufus Pollock On November 5, 2009 · 2 Comments

Continues the series of post related to analyzing catalogue data, here are some stats on author “significance” as measured by the number of book entries (‘items’) for that author in the Cambridge University Library catalogue from 1400-1960 (there being 1m+ such entries).

I’ve termed this measure “significance” (with intentional quotes) as it co-mingles a [...]

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How Long Should Copyright Last? Talk at Oxford IP Seminar

By Rufus Pollock On November 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Last week I was in Oxford to give a talk at the IP Seminar on “How Long Should Copyright Last?”. I have now posted the slides from the talk online.

In addition to covering the basic outline of the optimal term calculation, I was also able to give some results from the recent research [...]

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