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Dissecting a Zine Corpus

This research guide accompanies Barnard Zine Library curator Jenna Freedman's lightning talk at zines ASSEMBLE 2022

It's Complicated

photo of a thoughtful looking brownish rabbit with a silly hairdo--sticking up and out like a fountainEthical Concerns

  • Identities and categorization
  • Consent to participate
  • Text without context

Technical Details

  • Optical character recognition (OCR) software vs. transcriptions
  • File naming
  • Spreadsheet vs. catalog
  • Voyant Tools