Octavo 1: same as figure 3 in Historical Methods paper
Octavo 2: same as figure 13 in Historical Methods paper, but continue up to 1900 to see if there is a similar trend for Uppsala etc. (not as paper consumption, but percentage of books)
Octavo 3: A measure of how much Stockholm differs from the rest.
Octavo 4 (test case for us only): The rise of Octavo book in selected cities: Naples, Paris, Heidelberg, Berlin, Rotterdam, Amsterdam) #which cities, is still under discussion)
Discussion / Future perspectives
Our systematic approach provides a starting point and guidelines for more extensive integration of national catalogues.
ESTC? CERL? Open ecosystems? Research support? Open data? Open science? Open methods?
National bibliographies are essentially about mapping the national canon of publishing, but integrating data across borders should be managed in a way that takes into account specific local circumstances while also helping to overcome the national view in analyzing the past. We are now expanding our pilot study on the Finnish and Swedish bibliographies towards large-scale integration of national bibliographies in the CERL Heritage of the Printed Book Database. Such integration can help scholarship to reach a more precise view of print culture beyond the confines of national bibliographies.