Recursos para a clasificación da produción editorial na Galiza durante a etapa franquistadeseño e alimentación da base de datos

Abstract

Explanation of the methodology and the computational tools developed to undertake a research project within the domain of the Digital Humanities. In particular, the main goal of this project is to study the publishing industry in Galicia during the Franquist period (1939-1975), to analyze whether there was a culturally-concerned publishing industry and to determine the extent to which this acted as a means of public diffusion, both of political resistance against Franquism as well as the commitment to the preservation and enhancement of the Galician cultural identity. After a brief introduction to the project, we present the methodology followed throughout the process of retrieval and cataloging of the lists of titles, we explain now the process of the massive importation of the catalogs of the most important Galician public libraries was carried out, as well as their technical features and, subsequently, we describe the computational tools designed. Finally, we point out the methodological problems found and the solutions adopted given their possible usefulness for similar projects. We consider that the way they were dealt with and the experience gained solving them constitute, in themselves, important contributions of this project to the area of digital humanities.