Professor Paul Gooding

Professor of Library Studies and Digital Scholarship (Information Studies)

Research interests

Paul Gooding is Professor of Library Studies and Digital Scholarship at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on evaluating the impact of digital library collections on institutions and users, and how library and archival collections can be harnessed for innovative reuse in the Digital Humanities. He is particularly interested in the interaction between digital materials, user behaviour, and legal/institutional frameworks for collection development. He is the author of Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age: "Search All About It!" (Routledge, 2016), and co-editor of the forthcoming Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future (Facet Publishing). He has a track record of publications that span Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies.

Paul's funded projects include Digital Library Futures, which investigates the impact of non-print legal deposit upon academic legal deposit libraries in the United Kingdom, and the AHRC-funded Network to Investigate the Development of a Global Dataset of Digitised Texts. He has published broadly on topics relating to digital collections and user behaviour, and undertakes research into DH pedagogy for Postgraduate Research students. He is an Associate Editor for Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, and holds Fellowships of the Higher Education Academy and Royal Historical Society.

Paul is an experienced information professional who previously worked as a librarian with BBC Sport. His TV credits include the Open Golf, the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. He holds an BA in English Literature from the University of East Anglia, and an MA in Library and Information Studies (2007) and a PhD in Digital Humanities (2014) from University College London.

Publications

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2025

Bouich, Abdenour, Galassi, Monica, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Spooner, Rosemary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7715-7917, Thorpe, Kirsten, Booker, Lauren, Ciula, Arianna and Callaghan, Samantha (2025) iREAL: Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for AI in Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges. Literature Review. Documentation. Zenodo. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15791074).

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2025) “Just Chill!” Developing ‘Slow Artificial Intelligence’ Principles to Support Community Self-Determination in Libraries. CILIPS Scotland Annual Conference 2025 (CILIPS25), Dundee, Scotland, 02-03 June 2025.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Terras, Melissa and Ames, Sarah (2025) Library Catalogues as Data: Research, Practice and Usage. Facet Publishing: London. ISBN 9781783306589

Terras, Melissa, Anzinger, Bettina, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Mühlberger, Günter, Nockels, Joe, Romein, C. Annemieke, Stauder, Andy and Stauder, Florian (2025) The artificial intelligence cooperative: READ-COOP, Transkribus, and the benefits of shared community infrastructure for automated text recognition. Open Research Europe, 5, 16. (doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.18747.1)

2024

Nockels, Joseph, Terras, Melissa and Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2024) A Digital Engagement Framework for Handwritten Text Recognition. How can libraries harness automated transcription to develop audiences? Digital Humanities 2024, Washington, DC, USA, 6-9 August 2024.

Callaghan, Samantha, Bouich, Abdenour, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Spooner, Rosie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7715-7917, Thorpe, Kirsten, Booker, Lauren, Wright, Robin and Galassi, Monica (2024) iREAL: Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for AI in Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges. RSLondonSouthEast 2024, London, UK, 16th July 2024.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Booker, Lauren, Bouich, Abdenour, Callaghan, Samantha, Spooner, Rosie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7715-7917 and Thorpe, Kirsten (2024) iREAL: Indigenising Requirements Elicitation for Artificial Intelligence in Libraries. LUSTRE Workshop 4: The Future of AI to Unlock Digital Records, London, UK, 27-28 June 2024.

Terras, Melissa, Nockels, Joe, Ames, Sarah, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Stauder, Andy and Mühlberger, Günter (2024) On automating editions: the affordances of handwritten text recognition platforms for scholarly editing. Scholarly Editing, 41, (doi: 10.55520/W257A74E)

Jaillant, Lise, Warwick, Claire, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Aske, Katherine, Layne-Worthey, Glen and Downie, J. Stephen (Eds.) (2024) Navigating AI for Cultural Heritage Organisations. UCL Press. (In Press)

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Nockels, Joseph (2024) Case study: the adoption of handwritten text recognition at the National Library of Scotland. In: Jaillant, Lise, Warwick, Claire, Gooding, Paul, Aske, Katherine, Layne-Worthey, Glen and Downie, J. Stephen (eds.) Navigating AI for Cultural Heritage Organisation. UCL Press. (In Press)

Nockels, Joseph, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Terras, Melissa (2024) The implications of handwritten text recognition for accessing the past at scale. Journal of Documentation, 80(7), pp. 148-167. (doi: 10.1108/JD-09-2023-0183)

Nockels, Joseph, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Terras, Melissa (2024) Are Digital Humanities platforms facilitating sufficient diversity in research? A study of the Transkribus Scholarship Programme. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, (doi: 10.1093/llc/fqae018) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Almutairi, Huda N., Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Redhead, Adele (2023) Female Academics’ Knowledge Sharing Behaviour in a Gender Non-Mixed Work Environment. In: 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Lisbon, Portugal, 07-08 Sep 2023, pp. 1684-1688. ISBN 9781914587733 (doi: 10.34190/eckm.24.2.1224)

Nockels, Joe, Terras, Melissa and Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2023) A Speculative Design for Future Handwritten Text Recognition: HTR Use, and its Impact on Historical Research and the Digital Record. Digital Humanities 2023, Graz, Austria, 10-14 July 2023.

Winters, Jane, Donnay, Michael, Edmond, Jennifer, Murphy, Orla, Tupman, Charlotte, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Schuster, Kristen, Ciula, Arianna and Tonra, Justin (2023) Enhancing Research and Teaching Capacity through Collaboration: Building a UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association. Digital Humanities 2023, Graz, Austria, 10-14 July 2023.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2023) Libraries, archives, and the born-digital humanities. In: Galina Russell, Isabel and Layne-Worthey, Glen (eds.) Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities. Series: Routledge companions to the digital humanities. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2023) Informational abundance and material absence in the digitised early modern press: the case for contextual digitisation. In: Brownlees, Nicholas (ed.) The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation 1640–1800. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474499170 (In Press)

2022

Havens, Lucy, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Lingstadt, Kirsty, Forrest, Alex, MacDonald, Alasdair and Terras, Melissa (2022) The Library Catalogue as Dataset: Exploring Data Science Approaches to Analyse Collections at Scale. Digital Humanities Congress 2022, Sheffield, UK, 08-11 Sep 2022.

Nockels, Joseph, Terras, Melissa, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Ames, Sarah (2022) Understanding the application of handwritten text recognition technology in heritage contexts: a systematic review of Transkribus in published research. Archival Science, 22(3), pp. 367-392. (doi: 10.1007/s10502-022-09397-0)

Nockels, Joseph, Terras, Melissa, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Muehlberger, Guenter and Stauder, Andy (2022) Are Digital Humanities Platforms Sufficiently Facilitating Diversity in Research? A Study of Transkribus Free Processing Requests. Digital Humanities 2022 (DH2022), 25-29 Jul 2022.

Gow, Ann ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0172-6036, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Bartliff, Zoe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1644-3151, Kim, Yunhyong ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5400-0389 and Simpson, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 (2022) Changing Curriculums for a Changing World? Living in Interesting Times: Digital Preservation Education, Pedagogy and Skills. 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres 2022), Glasgow, Scotland, 12-16 Sep 2022. (In Press)

Brazier, David, Ryan, Bruce and Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2022) Evaluation of Inequalities of Access in UK Online Digital Collections: a Systematic Review. ASIS&T 24-Hour Global Conference, 26-27 Apr 2022.

Ciula, A. et al. (2022) Promoting Diversity and Inclusivity in DH in Ireland and the UK. Fourth Discussion Paper of the UK-Ireland DH Network. Discussion Paper. UK/Ireland Digital Humanities Network. (doi: 10.31219/osf.io/63wdr).

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2022) Towards critically addressable data for digital library user studies. In: Jaillant, Lise (ed.) Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence: Working with Born-Digital and Digitized Archival Collection. Series: Digital Humanities Research, 2 (2). Bielefeld University Press, pp. 109-130. ISBN 9783837655841 (doi: 10.1515/9783839455845-005)

2021

Cannelli, B. et al. (2021) Next Generation Careers in and from Digital Humanities: Third Discussion Paper of the UK-Ireland DH Network. Discussion Paper. Digital Humanities Research Network.

Gambell, S. et al. (2021) Communicating the Value and Impact of Digital Humanities in Teaching, Research, and Infrastructure Development. Project Report. Digital Humanities Research Network. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5643727).

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Terras, Melissa and Berube, Linda (2021) Identifying the future direction of legal deposit in the United Kingdom: the Digital Library Futures approach. Journal of Documentation, 77(5), pp. 1154-1172. (doi: 10.1108/JD-09-2020-0159)

Romanova, N. et al. (2021) Capacity Enhancement in Digital Humanities in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Training and Beyond. Discussion Paper. Digital Humanities Research Network. (doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.5105938).

Lewis, Stuart, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Furlough, Mike (2021) Investigations into a Global Digitisation Dataset. Digital Archive and Kanon, 10 Mar 2021.

Benatti, Francesca, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Sillence, Matthew (2021) Learning digital humanities in a community of practice: the DEAR model of postgraduate research training. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 15(3),

2020

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Terras, Melissa eds. (2020) Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future. Series: Facet studies in information science (1). Facet Publishing: London. ISBN 9781783303779

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Terras, Melissa (2020) ‘An ark to save learning from deluge’? Reconceptualising legal deposit after the digital turn. In: Gooding, Paul and Terras, Melissa (eds.) Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future. Series: Facet studies in information science (1). Facet Publishing: London, pp. 203-228. ISBN 9781783303779

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2020) The library in digital humanities: interdisciplinary approaches to digital materials. In: Schuster, Kristen and Dunn, Stuart (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Research Methods in Digital Humanities. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: Oxon, UK, pp. 137-152. ISBN 9781138363021 (doi: 10.4324/9780429777028-11)

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Fulkerson, Natalie (2020) Towards a Global Dataset of Digitised Texts: Final Report of the Global Digitised Dataset Network. Project Report. GDDNetwork, Glasgow and Ann Arbor, MI.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2020) Spotting Clouds on the Horizon: User-Centric Evaluation after the Digital Archival Turn. Archives, Access and AI, London, UK, 15-17 Jan 2020.

2019

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2019) The GDD Network: Towards a Global Dataset of Digitised Texts. DCDC 2019, Birmingham, UK, 12-14 Nov 2019.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Terras, Melissa and Berube, Linda (2019) User-Centric Evaluation of Non-Print Legal Deposit in the United Kingdom: the Digital Library Futures Approach. In: 13th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries, Aberystwyth, Wales, 23-25 Jul 2019,

Benatti, Francesca, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Sillence, Matthew (2019) Developing a Community of Practice: The CHASE Model for Digital Humanities Researcher Training. Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 9-12 July 2019.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Terras, Melissa, Berube, Linda, Bennett, Mike and Hadden, Richard (2019) Subjectifying Library Users to the Macroscope Using Automatic Classification Matching. Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 9-12 July 2019.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2019) Towards a Global Dataset of Digitised Texts: The GDDNetwork. OCLC Mini-Symposium on the Discovery and Use of Open Collections, Leiden, The Netherlands, 19 Jun 2019.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Terras, Melissa and Berube, Linda (2019) Towards User-Centric Evaluation of UK Non-Print Legal Deposit. Digital Library Futures: Symposium on Non-Print Legal Deposit, Cambridge, UK, 21 May 2019.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Terras, Melissa and Berube, Linda (2019) Towards User-Centric Evaluation of UK Non-Print Legal Deposit: a Digital Library Futures White Paper. Project Report. Digital Library Futures.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Smith, Jos and Mann, Justine (2019) The forensic imagination: interdisciplinary approaches to tracing creativity in writers' born-digital archives. Archives and Manuscripts, 47(3), pp. 374-390. (doi: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1608837)

2018

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Terras, Melissa and Berube, Linda (2018) Legal Deposit Web Archives and the Digital Humanities: a Universe of Lost Opportunity? Digital Humanities 2018, Mexico City, Mexico, 26-29 Jun 2018. pp. 590-592.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Smith, Jos and Mann, Justine (2018) The Forensic Imagination: Co-Developing Interdisciplinary Approaches to Writers' Born-Digital Archives. After the Digital Revolution, London, UK, 25-26 Jan 2018.

2017

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Terras, Melissa (2017) Inheriting library cards to Babel and Alexandria: contemporary metaphors for the digital library. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 18(3), pp. 207-222. (doi: 10.1007/s00799-016-0194-2)

Gooding, Paul Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2017) "A Trace of this Journey": Citations of Digitised Newspapers in UK History PhD Theses. In: Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, QC, Canada, 08-11 Aug 2017, pp. 455-456.

2016

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2016) Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age: 'Search All About It!'. Series: Digital research in the arts and humanities. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781472463388 (doi: 10.4324/9781315586830)

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Benatti, Francesca and Sillence, Matthew (2016) Collaborative Digital Humanities Training: the CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age Programme. Digital Humanities Congress 2016, Sheffield, UK, 08-10 Sep 2016.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2016) Exploring the information behaviour of users of Welsh newspapers online through web log analysis. Journal of Documentation, 72(2), pp. 232-246. (doi: 10.1108/JD-10-2014-0149)

2015

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Bennett, Stephen (2015) "A Link to the Past": Remastered Videogames and the Material Archive. Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition, Cambridge, UK, 18-20 Jun 2015.

2014

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2014) Exploring Usage of Digital Newspaper Archives through Web Log Analysis: a Case Study of Welsh Newspapers Online. Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, 07-12 Jul 2014.

Coutinho, Carlos and Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2014) Applying the TIMBUS Approach to Preserving Context in Digital Libraries. In: 11th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres 2014), Melbourne, Australia, 06-10 Oct 2014, pp. 326-327. ISBN 9780642278814

2013

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Terras, Melissa and Warwick, Claire (2013) The myth of the new: mass digitization, distant reading, and the future of the book. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 28(4), pp. 629-639. (doi: 10.1093/llc/fqt051)

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2013) Mass digitization and the garbage dump: the conflicting needs of quantitative and qualitative methods. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 28(3), pp. 425-431. (doi: 10.1093/llc/fqs054)

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2013) The Digitized Divide: Mapping Access to Subscription-Based Digitized Resources. Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, NE, USA, 16-19 Jul 2013.

2012

Gooding, Paul Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Terras, Melissa and Warwick, Claire (2012) The Myth of the New: Mass Digitization, Distant Reading, and the Future of the Book. Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany, 16-22 Jul 2012.

2008

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Terras, Melissa (2008) 'Grand Theft Archive': a quantitative analysis of the state of computer game preservation. International Journal of Digital Curation, 3(2), pp. 19-41. (doi: 10.2218/ijdc.v3i2.56)

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Articles

Books

Book Sections

Edited Books

Research Reports or Papers

Cannelli, B. et al. (2021) Next Generation Careers in and from Digital Humanities: Third Discussion Paper of the UK-Ireland DH Network. Discussion Paper. Digital Humanities Research Network.

Conference or Workshop Item

Lewis, Stuart, Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X and Furlough, Mike (2021) Investigations into a Global Digitisation Dataset. Digital Archive and Kanon, 10 Mar 2021.

Gooding, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X (2019) The GDD Network: Towards a Global Dataset of Digitised Texts. DCDC 2019, Birmingham, UK, 12-14 Nov 2019.

Conference Proceedings

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Grants

Digital Library Futures: the Impact of E-Legal Deposit in the Academic Sector (2017-2019).
AHRC Early Career Research Grant award AH/P005845/2 £202,185.
Paul Gooding (PI) and Melissa Terras (Co-I).

Developing a Network to Investigate the Development of a Global Dataset of Digitised Texts (2019-2020).
AHRC US/UK Networking Grant award AH/S012397/1 £48,314.
Paul Gooding (PI) and Michael Furlough (Co-I).

AELIOAN (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations)
AHRC/NEH New Directions for Digital Scholarship Grant award AH/V009443/1 £48,572.
Lise Jaillant (PI), Glen Worthey (Co-PI), Claire Warwick (Co-I) and Paul Gooding (Co-I)

Supervision

Nam, Hye Lim
Mental Models of the Organisation of Scholarly Information Across the Academy: Disciplinary Similarities and Differences
O'Leary, Eleanor
Valuing the Gaming Community: Preserving MMOs Through Co-Creation
Rathburn, Rhonda Michelle
Not Participating, Not Included: Towards Inclusive Assessment Practices in the Scottish Library Sector
Robertson, Penny
Post pandemic Scottish Further Education (FE) libraries: exploring services, spaces, and collections.

Teaching

Paul teaches across a range of courses at Undergraduate Postgraduate level. He is convenor of the following courses:

Digital Media and Information Studies:

Digital Creativity.

Information Management and Preservation:

He also lectures and supervises dissertations across Digital Media and Information Studies (UG) and Information Management and Preservation (PGT).

Professional activities & recognition

Grant committees & research advisory boards

2016 - 2020: AHRC, Peer Review College
2017: British Library, Heritage Made Digital Newspapers Advisory Board

Editorial boards

2015: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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