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#publishing #xl8 #translation

I’m very excited to share this. My first time co-writing with a student who won a year-long fellowship to help compile the data. Many thanks owed to those who read, edited, and supported along the way. Please share widely!!

How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers - Public Books A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.

Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us.
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Dataset with book bestseller info for New Zealand Market, 2019-2022

looking for some fun literary datasets for the upcoming semester? check these out!

This is such a wonderful resource from Long Le-Khac and the @post45data.bsky.social: The Canon of Asian American Literature.

The Canon of Asian American Literature – Post45 Data Collective This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.

"Representing the canon that scholars of Asian American literature have built, it is the most expansive dataset to date on Asian American literature."

Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...

This resource maps the growing fields of Asian American literature & scholarship since the 1970s.

It includes more than 700 scholarly publications, plus every work cited in them—books, film, TV, video games, etc—and detailed demographic information for their authors.

Explore, teach, & build on it!

Yes! And TV shows and even some video games 👾

A fantastic resource for anyone interested in American literature, ethnic studies, or the changing literary canon!

The Canon of Asian American Literature – Post45 Data Collective This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.

📚 New dataset: The Canon of Asian American Literature

From 1971–2023, nearly 1.9k scholarly citations chart the evolving field—spanning nearly 800 authors, 1,000 works, and five decades of canon formation.

Explore the data here: doi.org/10.18737/092...

This data was collected over *nine years* by Long Le-Khac and research assistants. It is a huge accomplishment and amazing resource. Congratulations to the team!

The Canon of Asian American Literature – Post45 Data Collective This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.

📚 New dataset: The Canon of Asian American Literature

From 1971–2023, nearly 1.9k scholarly citations chart the evolving field—spanning nearly 800 authors, 1,000 works, and five decades of canon formation.

Explore the data here: doi.org/10.18737/092...

The publication of this issue also marks the end of @anniemcc.bsky.social's distinguished five-year term as Co-Editor of the journal. Our new Co-Editor is @jdconnor.bsky.social. Congratulations to Annie and J.D.!

There’s lot of bullshit ways that we weigh literary/artistic value, & always have been,* but sweet fancy Moses right now likes/subs/views feel particularly insidious.

*see @post45data.bsky.social on the insularity of literary awards, @meganpeiser.bsky.social history of novel reviewing, etc.

This is so cool! Sharing with researchers who are interested in the literary market 👍

Thanks to your people for adding the dataset to the catalog!

Ah, good point. We’ve been treating the data essay and dataset as a single publication, but you’re right that we should probably start recording them separately…

Whoa. This looks like an amazing new dataset from the folks over at @post45data.bsky.social

Thank you for this question and for wanting to increase discoverability!

I think our records show up in WorldCat because we register DOIs. search.worldcat.org/title/109214...

In 2021-2022 I was struggling with just the French data for months before putting that project on hold indefinitely. 😭 Super grateful that others persisted, and looking forward to using it for #MultilingualDH. 🙏

Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....

Hoo boy! I can’t believe it’s happening. We’ve been working on this for years. Thanks to @post45data.bsky.social you can now search our IB database, with a very cool interface!

Please share with anyone who might be interested

Special thanks to @ninasabak.bsky.social for aiding with the data source

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.

Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉

🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

HathiTrust Research Cenger Extracted Features 2.5 info card

HathiTrust Research Cenger Extracted Features 2.5 info card

The HathiTrust Research Center is pleased to announce a new release of our open-access Extracted Features dataset, a statistical snapshot of:
18,725,868 volumes
6,867,699,164 pages
3,255,304,293,468 tokens
450+ languages

go.illinois.edu/EF25 for details & download
cc:@hathitrust.bsky.social #DH2025

Data Is Plural — Structured Archive

You can find all the Data Is Plural datasets here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If you teach Digital Humanities or anything similar, it's worth exploring, and probably including on your syllabus.

Data Is Plural — 2025.07.16 edition Landfills, car crash datasets, AI legal flubs, British literary prizes, and subway art.

Check out the latest edition of the fantastic Data Is Plural newsletter: www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2025...

You can find data about landfills, car crashes, AI legal flubs, subway art, and... British Literary Prizes! V. exciting to see Katherine Binhammer et al.'s dataset featured in this venue

Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction – Post45 Data Collective This dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.

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cool dataset alert!

Are we getting worse at imagining the future?

Check out the new dataset Grant Wythoff and I just published, “Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction”!

A fascinating dataset that will be of interest to sci-fi scholars and beyond. And co-authored by Cornell Lit in English grad student @teddyleane.bsky.social!