This site was created by Gioia Stevens, Librarian for Specialized Cataloging at NYU Libraries. Her previous experiments with cookbook metadata include Early American Cookbooks, a digital project including full-text searching, analysis, and visualization of 1450 cookbooks published in the United States between 1800 and 1920. For more information see New Metadata Recipes for Old Cookbooks: Creating and Analyzing a Digital Collection Using the HathiTrust Research Center Portal in The Code4Lib Journal, issue 37 (July 2017).
The workflow for this project analyzed and visualized 27,187 MARC records using MarcEdit, OpenRefine, and Tableau Public (all tools available at no cost). OpenRefine was especially helpful in isolating the country codes in the MARC 008 field and then batch editing to assign geographic names. Please contact Gioia Stevens at NYU Libraries for more information.