journal of jesuit studies 3 (2016) 61-83 brill.com/jjs Bringing Jesuit Bibliography into the Twenty-First Century: Boston College’s New Sommervogel Online Kasper Volk Boston College
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[email protected] Abstract This article introduces The Boston College Jesuit Bibliography: The New Sommervogel Online (nso), an ongoing project of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College in conjunction with the publisher Brill. Named for the famed nineteenth- century Jesuit bibliographer Carlos Sommervogel, the nso is the modern incarnation of a long and distinctive tradition of Jesuit bibliography. It harnesses the capabilities of the digital age to create a comprehensive, searchable, and open-access database cata- loging thousands of Jesuit-themed books, book chapters, articles, and book reviews. By consolidating and organizing existing scholarship on the Society of Jesus, the new resource will provide a valuable service to scholars around the world and facilitate additional development within the already dynamic and rapidly expanding field of Jesuit studies. Keywords Pedro de Ribadeneyra – Philippe Algambe – Brothers De Backer – Auguste Carayon – Carlos Sommervogel – László Polgár – Jesuit bibliography – digital humanities – New Sommervogel Online © Volk and Staysniak, 2016 | doi: 10.1163/22141332-00301004 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial 4.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 01:14:22PM via free access <UN> 62 Volk and Staysniak An exciting new project is in the works at Boston College, and it has the poten- tial to revolutionize the field of Jesuit studies.