Cultural history of Ibero-American publishing

Ibero-American Editors and Publishers (Centuries XIX-XXI)– EDI-RED

EDI-RED

EDI-RED portal traces the map of literary publishing in Spanish, Catalan, Basque/Basque, Galician and Portuguese, from 1800 to the present, in any format and geographic space.

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EDI-RED addresses the cultural history of Ibero-American publishing, focusing on on the portraits of publishers, publishers, collections and literary consultants, from nineteenth-century craft companies to the large groups that currently dominate the global Spanish publishing industry.

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The aims of the project are:

1) Raise consciousness about the heritage value of publishers’ archives.     
2) Showcase the practices of their trade’s professionals.     
3) Rescuing the memory and legacy of modern literary publishing.

EDI-RED traces the map of Ibero-American publishing in the global Spanish environment and the rest of the peninsular languages, integrating EDI-RED-generated digital resources, biodata of publishers, as well as bibliodata of their works, together with others from different sources (BNE, BVMC, VIAF, DILBE, etc.) in an Open Data environment, according to the data model:

EDI-RED data model

UML data model for EDI-RED.

The model is implemented in the EDI-RED database , which has regularly updated and enriched contents; it is a living database, with bibliographic references to Ibero-American editors and publishers.

Base de datos EDI-RED

EDI-RED database.

EDI-RED enables the analysis of publishing networks and the evolution of publishing in time and space, as well as the visualization of the life and professional trajectory of agents in the cultural field in the Iberian languages.

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EDI-RED Creators' Networks.

Description of the EDI-RED web portal, summary of its goals and what it aims to be.

Vídeo EDI-RED

Source: Unidad SIGyHD (CCHS-CSIC)

P.I.: Pura Fernández - ILLA (CSIC)

Pura Fernández

Her research focuses on the history of the contemporary cultural field (XIX-XXI centuries): the history of literature, publishing and reading in the Hispanic field,     
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