Ó Riada Combined Library Test (from Seán Ó Riada Descriptive List in the Seán Ó Riada Collection/Bailiúchán Sheáin Uí Riada)

Collation of data from UCC Boole Library catalogue, and the Seán Ó Riada Collection / Bailiúchán Sheáin Uí Riada at the Boole Library, University College Cork.  Dataset originally created 2015 UPDATE: Packaged on 01/10/2025 I. About this Data Set This data set is a result of close reading conducted by Patrick Egan (Pádraig Mac Aodhgáin) at the Boole Library, University College Cork, books relating to Seán Ó Riada. Research was conducted between 2014-2018. It contains a combination of metadata from searches of the Boole Library catalogue and Seán Ó Riada Collection finding aid (or "descriptive list"), relating to books that were in the possession of Seán Ó Riada at his residences in Dublin and Cork. The PhD project was published in 2020, entitled, “Exploring ethnography and digital visualisation: a study of musical practice through the contextualisation of music related projects from the Seán Ó Riada Collection”. You are invited to use and re-use this data with appropriate attribution. The "Ó Riada Combined Library Test" dataset consists of 753 rows in one worksheet and 36 in another. II. What’s included? This data set includes: A data scrape from UCC Boole Library catalogue to find all instances of books that were part of Seán Ó Riada's book library. In addition there are manual searches which located extra books, and the results were also split into a separate worksheet that had information on books that were deemed by the researcher as related to music. III. How Was It Created? These data were created by daily visits to the Seán Ó Riada Collection, archives in Ireland, and online databases over the course of four years, through close reading, description, and general collection of metadata. IV. Data Set Field Descriptions Column headings have not been added to the dataset. Column A - year that the book was publishedColumn B - title of the bookColumn C - author of the bookColumn D - blankColumn E - blankColumn F - blankColumn G - blankColumn H - editionColumn I - publisher locationColumn I - publisher V. Rights statement The text in this data set was created by the researcher and can be used in many different ways under creative commons with attribution. All contributions to this PhD project are released into the public domain as they are created. Anyone is free to use and re-use this data set in any way they want, provided reference is given to the creator of this dataset. VI. Creator and Contributor Information Creator: Patrick Egan (Pádraig Mac Aodhgáin) VII. Contact Information Please direct all questions and comments to Patrick Egan via his website at www.patrickegan.org. You can also get in touch with the Library via UCC website.