Journal articles, book chapters and other publications
“A Tale of Two Collectors: Using nodegoat to Map the Connections Between the Manuscript Collections of Thomas Phillipps and Alfred Chester Beatty”, New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 9 (forthcoming, 2021), pp. 89-111
“Harmonizing and publishing heterogeneous premodern manuscript metadata as Linked Open Data,” Journal of the Society for Information Science and Technology First published: 26 May 2021 (Mikko Koho, Toby Burrows, Eero Hyvönen, Esko Ikkala, Kevin Page, Lynn Ransom, Jouni Tuominen, Doug Emery, Mitch Fraas, Benjamin Heller, David Lewis, Andrew Morrison, Guillaume Porte, Emma Thomson, Athanasios Velios, Hanno Wijsman) https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24499
“A New Model for Manuscript Provenance Research: the Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project,” Manuscript Studies 6:1 (2021) (with D Emery, A M Fraas, E Hyvönen, E Ikkala, M Koho, D Lewis, A Morrison, K Page, L Ransom, E Thomson, J Tuominen, A Velios, H Wijsman)
“Mapping Manuscript Migrations: tracking the travels of 217,000 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts“, The Book Collector 70 (1) (Spring 2021), 100-107
“Evaluating a Semantic Portal for the ‘Mapping Manuscript Migrations’ Project”, DigItalia: Rivista del Digitale nei Beni Culturali 2020 no. 2 (with Nicole Bergk Pinto, Mahaut Cazals, Alexandre Gaudin, Hanno Wijsman) http://digitalia.sbn.it/article/view/2643
“Red Kangaroo Paw – Anigozanthos rufus – 1792,” in: Collecting the West: "99 Collections That Made Western Australia", 2020. https://nodegoat.collectingthewest.net/viewer.p/1/3/object/25-9993
”Mapping Manuscript Migrations Knowledge Graph: Data for Tracing the History and Provenance of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts”, Journal of Open Humanities Data, 6:3 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.14 (with Emery, D, Fraas, M, Hyvönen, E, Ikkala, E, Koho, M, Lewis, D, Morrison, A, Page, K, Ransom, L, Thomson, E, Tuominen, J, Velios, A and Wijsman, H)
“Linked Open Data Vocabularies and Identifiers for Medieval Studies” in: DHN 2020: Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference, Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020. Edited by Sanita Reinsone, Inguna Skadiņa, Anda Baklāne, Jānis Daugavietis (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2612), pp. 211-218 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2612/short5.pdf (with Antoine Brix, Doug Emery, Arthur Mitchell Fraas, Eero Hyvönen, Esko Ikkala, Mikko Koho, David Lewis, Synnøve Myking, Kevin Page, Lynn Ransom, Emma Cawlfield Thomson, Jouni Tuominen, Hanno Wijsman, Pip Willcox)
“Journal kept by Aucke Pieters Jonck, skipper of the Emeloordt 1658,” in: Collecting the West: “99 Collections That Made Western Australia”, 2020. https://nodegoat.collectingthewest.net/viewer.p/1/3/object/25-3728
“Another Phillipps Manuscript in Australia,” Script & Print Vol. 42, no. 3 (2018), 238 [published 2020]
"Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Twentieth-Century Great Britain and North America," Museum Worlds Vol. 7 Issue 1 (2019) 45-57
“Tracing the History of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: Two Recent Digital Humanities Projects”, in: Lana Pitcher and Michael Pidd (eds), Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2018. Studies in the Digital Humanities. Sheffield: The Digital Humanities Institute, 2019. Available online at: <https://www.dhi.ac.uk/openbook/chapter/dhc2018-burrows>
"The Legacy of Sir Thomas Phillipps in Australia and New Zealand", Script & Print, Vol. 42, No. 2,(2018), 94-116 [published 2019]
"Cultural heritage collections as research data: towards computationally amenable collections", in: digital cultural heritage: FUTURE VISIONS: Papers Presented at the digital cultural heritage: FUTURE VISIONS London Symposium 13–15 November 2017 in London, United Kingdom, edited by Kelly Greenop and Chris Landorf (Brisbane: Centre for Architecture Theory Criticism History, University of Queensland, 2019), pp 1-17
Burns, Halle; Burrows, Toby; Downie, J. Stephen; Lewis, David; Page, Kevin; Velios, Athanasios. 2019. "Assessing the practicality of ARK identifier usage in a catalogue of medieval manuscripts." iConference 2019 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103380
"A Linked Open Data Service and Portal for Pre-modern Manuscript Research", Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2019 Conference, Copenhagen, March 2019 https://cst.dk/DHN2019Pro/papers/hyvonen-et-al-dhn-2019-mmm.pdf (with Eero Hyvönen, Esko Ikkala, Miho Koho, Jouni Touminen, Lynn Ransom and Hanno Wijsman)
"Connecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Collections", Open Library of Humanities, 4 (2) (2018) 32 pp. DOI:http://doi.org/10.16995/olh.269
"Collecting the Past: Manuscript and Book Collecting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries", in: Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries, ed. Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 1-7
"‘There never was such a collector since the world began’: a new look at Sir Thomas Phillipps", in: Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries, ed. Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 45-62
"Digital Representations of the Provenance of Medieval Manuscripts", in: Matthew Evan Davis, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel and Ece Turnator (eds), Meeting the Medieval in a Digital World (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2018), pp. 203-221
"Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Digging into Data for the History and Provenance of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts", Manuscript Studies 3 (1) (Spring 2018), 249-252 (with Eero Hyvönen, Lynn Ransom and Hanno Wijsman)
"Manuscripts and their (Digital) Afterlives", in: Jennifer E. Boyle and Helen J. Burgess (eds), Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), pp. 158-166
"The History and Provenance of Manuscripts in the Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps: New Approaches to Digital Representation", Speculum 92 S1 (October 2017), S39-S64 full-text
"Even sweeter: what happens when the humanities gets graphic", Medium 30 July 2017 https://medium.com/@bestqualitycrab/https-medium-com-huni2-0-48373de1e3a1 (with Deb Verhoeven)
"Social linking and the Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)", ЦИФРОВАЯ ГУМАНИТАРИСТИКА: РЕСУРСЫ, МЕТОДЫ, ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ, Материалы Международной научной конференции (Пермь: Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет, 2017), pp. 76-78 (with Paul Arthur and Deb Verhoeven)
"Manuscripts from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps in North American institutional collections", Manuscript Studies 2 (2016), 307-327
"Agregacion de los datos para vincular social en las humanidades y arts creativas: la Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) = Aggregating data for social linking in the humanities and creative arts: the Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)", Signa: Revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Semiotica 25 (2016), 109-119 (with Deb Verhoeven)
"Aggregating Cultural Heritage Data for Research Use: The Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)", in Metadata and Semantics Research, 9th Research Conference, MTSR 2015, Manchester, UK, September 9–11, 2015: Proceedings, ed. Emmanouel Garoufallou, Richard J. Hartley, Panorea Gaitanou (Communications in Computer and Information Science, 544) (Cham: Springer, 2015), pp. 417-423 (with Deb Verhoeven)
"A Digital Research Community in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: the ARC Network for Early European Research, 2005-2010", in New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies II, ed. by Tassie Gniady, Kris McAbee, Jessica Murphy (Toronto: Iter Academic Press, 2014), pp. 51-66
"Crowd-sourcing for serendipity" The Australian: Higher Education Supplement 10 December 2014 (with Deb Verhoeven)
"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and Creative Arts: The HuNI Virtual Laboratory" EDUCAUSE Review Online May/June 2014 http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/digital-scholarship-humanities-and-creative-arts-huni-virtual-laboratory (with Deb Verhoeven)
"A data-centred ‘virtual laboratory’ for the humanities: Designing the Australian Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) service", Literary and Linguistic Computing 28 (4) (2013), 576-581 doi:10.1093/llc/fqt064
"Coming down to earth: Norma Hemming turns from SF to romance", in Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature 1935-2012, edited by Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Publishing, 2013), pp. 202-208
"Collecting and informing: the University Library", in Seeking Wisdom: a Centenary History of The University of Western Australia, edited by Jenny Gregory with Jean Chetkovich (Crawley, W.A.: UWA Publishing, 2013), pp. 147-158
"Designing a national 'Virtual Laboratory' for the humanities: the Australian HuNI project", Digital Humanities 2012: Conference Abstracts, University of Hamburg, July 16-22, ed. Jan Christoph Meyer (Hamburg: University of Hamburg, 2012), pp. 139-141
"A machine for browsing: beyond the 'single search box' ", OCLC Systems & Services 28 (1) (2012), 56-58
"Building a Digital Research Community in Medieval and Early Modern Studies: The Australian Network for Early European Research", Digital Medievalist 7 (2011) [published February 2012]: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/7/burrows/
"Sharing humanities data for e-research: conceptual and technical issues", in: Sustainable Data from Digital Research ed. Nick Thieberger et al. (Melbourne: PARADISEC, 2011), pp. 177-192 [Available online at: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7938 ]
‘Organizing Digital Resources for Cultural Heritage Research’, in: Safeguard of Cultural Heritage: a Challenge from the Past for the Europe of Tomorrow: COST Strategic Workshop July 11th-13th, Florence, Italy, ed. Marco Foravanti and Saverio Mecca (Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2011), pp. 95-96.
"Ontology learning and the humanities", in: Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances, ed. Wilson Wong, Wei Liu and Mohammed Bennamoun (Hershey, PA: IGI-Global, 2011), pp. 186-199
“Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Medieval Manuscript Research”, in: Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 2 – Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2, ed. Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritze, Georg Vogeler (Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 3) (Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2010), pp. 117-131 [Available online at: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4346/ ]
"Medieval manuscripts in Australia", ICMA (International Center of Medieval Art) Newsletter, Dec. 2010, p. 7
Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages: entries for "Gautier of Saint Victor", "Hugh of St Cher", "Isaac of Stella", "John of Garland", "Nicholas of Lyre" and "Peter Comestor" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2010)
"Identity parade: managing contextual personal information for archival data", Archives and Manuscripts 36 (2) (Nov. 2008) 88-104 [published Dec. 2009]
"E-research and the humanities", UWA News 28 (11), 10 August 2009, p. 16
"Rock music" in: The Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia (Nedlands: UWA Publishing, 2009), pp. 773-775
"Discovering Early Europe in Australia: The Europa Inventa Resource Discovery Service" in: Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information: ICADL 2008, ed. George Buchanan, Masood Masoodian and Sally Jo Cunningham (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5362) (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008), 394-395
"Building a digital research community in the humanities" in: Research and Advanced Technology in Digital Libraries, ed. Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard et al. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5173) (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008), 394-397 [with Ela Majocha]
"Building e-Research Infrastructures for Collaboration in Humanities Research Networks", Advanced Computing 2007: Proceedings of APAC 07, Perth, October 2007 (Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, v. 71). Sydney: Australian Computer Society, 2008. (with Elzbieta Majocha)
"Developing a digital repository for a humanities research network: the PioNEER Project", New Review of Academic Librarianship 13 (1/2) (2007) 1-11
"Identity parade: building web portals about people", OCLC Systems and Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 23 (4) (2007) 329-331
"Personal electronic archives: collecting the digital me", OCLC Systems and Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 22 (2) (2006) 85-88
"Brave New World or plus ça change?: electronic journals and the academic library", Australian Academic and Research Libraries 37 (3) (2006), 170-178
"Reinventing the humanities in a networked environment: the Australian Network for Early European Research", in: Humanities, Computers and Cultural Heritage: Proceedings of the XVI international conference of the Association for History and Computing 14-17 September 2005 (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005), pp. 95-99 [http://www.knaw.nl/publicaties/pdf/20051064.pdf ]
"Sound footings: building a national digital library of Australian music" in: Research and Advanced Technology in Digital Libraries, ed. Rachel Heery and Liz Lyons (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3232) (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004), 282-291 [with Marie-Louise Ayres and Robyn Holmes]
"How the West was one: using VDX to redevelop cooperative document delivery services in Western Australian university libraries", Interlending & Document Supply 32 (2) (2004), 80-87 [with Dan Archibald and Carolyn McDonald]
"Using Encoded Archival Description with manuscript collections: the Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts", Archives and Manuscripts 30 (2) (Nov. 2002),82-95.
"Preserving the past, conceptualising the future: research libraries and digital preservation", Australian Academic & Research Libraries 31 (4) (2000), 142-153.
"The historian as librarian", Limina 6 (2000), 116-119.
"Electronic texts, digital libraries, and the humanities in Australia", Library Hi Tech 17(3) (1999), 248-255
"Beyond HTML: markup languages and the future of electronic information" Australian Academic and Research Libraries 29 (2) (1998), 150-156
"Textus ex machina: electronic texts and medieval studies" Parergon 14 (2) (Jan. 1997), 67-83
"Using DynaWeb to deliver large full-text databases in the humanities", Computers & Texts 13 (Dec. 1996), 15-17
"Educating for the Internet in an academic library: the Scholars' Centre at The University of Western Australia" Education for Information 13 (1995), 229-242
"Integrating electronic services into the academic library: the Scholars' Centre at The University of Western Australia" Australian Academic and Research Libraries 25 (1994), 213-220
"Bibliographic access and the Internet: moving beyond cataloguing in academic and research libraries" Cataloguing Australia 19 (1993), 167-174
"The virtual catalogue: bibliographic access for the virtual library" New Library World 94 (1107) (1993), 5-9
"Organizational change at the State Library of New South Wales and the University of Canberra Library" New Library World 94 (1106) (1993), 21-23
"Exchange rates, Australian libraries and serials subscriptions" in: Serials Publishing and Acquisitions in Australia, ed. Alfred Gans (New York: Haworth Press, 1993), p. 19-24.
"Serials collection management in academic libraries: an Australian perspective" in: The International Serials Industry, ed. Hazel Woodward and Stella Pilling (Aldershot: Gower, 1993), p. 207-222
"Australian periodicals" in: Australian Studies: Acquisition and Collection Development for Libraries, ed. G.E. Gorman (London: Mansell, 1992), p. 63-
"Michelet in English" Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 16 (1) (1992), 23-28
"The future of technical services" Australian Academic and Research Libraries 23 (1992), 218-220
"The Australian Bibliographic Network: current state and planned redevelopment" New Library World 93 (1104) (1992), 20-21
"OCLC CAT CD450 in Australian libraries: at the University of Western Australia Library" LASIE 22 (1991/1992), 122-124
"Australia's declining serials resources and the future role of its university libraries" The Serials Librarian 20 (4) (1991), 85-93
"Conspectus at The University of Western Australia. Part 1, An overview" Australian Library Review 8 (1991), 129-132
"Replacement of missing issues of serials" Australian & New Zealand Journal of Serials Librarianship 1 (2) (1990), 49-61 [with Sandra Pullman]
"The university and its library in Britain and Australia" Australian Academic and Research Libraries 19 (1988), 74-86
"Funding and governance of British university libraries" British Journal of Academic Librarianship 2 (1987-88), 165-176
"British university libraries in the 1980s" Australian Library Journal 37 (1988), 14-25
"Holy information: a new look at Raban Maur's De naturis rerum" Parergon 5 (new series) (1987), 28-37
"Academic status for academic librarians?" Australian Academic and Research Libraries 17 (1986), 9-13
"Some characteristics of authority control in ABN" Cataloguing Australia 11 (3) (Sept. 1985), 2-7
"The geography of monastic property in medieval England" Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 57 (1985), 79-86
"The Templars' case for their defence in 1310" Journal of Religious History 13 (1984-85), 248-259
"The future of authority control in ABN" Cataloguing Australia 10 (4) (Dec. 1984), 9-17
"Western Australian government publications" Academic and Research Libraries 14 (1983), 137-143
"Their patron saint and eponymous hero: Jules Michelet and the Annales school" Clio 12 (1) (Fall 1982), 67-81
"Monastic benefactors in medieval Yorkshire" Journal of Religious History 12 (1982-83), 3-8
"The foundation of Nostell Priory" Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 53 (1981), 31-35
"Unmaking the Middle Ages" Journal of Medieval History 7 (1981), 127-134
Books
British University Libraries (Routledge Library Editions: Library Science). London: Routledge, 2019 (reprint) https://www.routledge.com/British-University-Libraries/Burrows/p/book/9780367361297
Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries, ed. Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston. London: Routledge, 2018 https://www.routledge.com/Collecting-the-Past-British-Collectors-and-their-Collections-from-the/Burrows-Johnston/p/book/9780815382348
Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Nedlands: Hilliard Press, 2010
I Remember When I Was Young: the Matt Taylor Story. Nedlands: Hilliard Press, 2009 [with Phil Riseborough]
The Text in the Machine: Electronic Texts in the Humanities. New York: Haworth Press, 1999
Excellence in Research Methods for Information Professionals. [CD-ROM] Mt Lawley, W.A.: Edith Cowan University, 1997 [with Gulten S. Wagner]
Advances in Information Retrieval. Churchlands, W.A.: Edith Cowan University, 1995
Comics in Australia and New Zealand: the Creators, the Collectors, the Collections. New York: Haworth Press, 1994 [co-editor with Grant Stone]
Developing a Research Plan. Churchlands, W.A.: Edith Cowan University, 1994
Serials Management in Australia and New Zealand: Profile of Excellence. New York: Haworth Press, 1993 [co-editor with Philip G. Kent]
British University Libraries. New York: Haworth Press, 1989
Journals
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Serials Librarianship, Vol. 1 (1990)-v. 4 (1993/94). New York: Haworth Press. [editor]
"Minority reports: Indigenous and community voices in archives: papers from the fourth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (ICHORA4), Perth, Western Australia, August 2008", Archival Science vol. 9 nos. 1/2 (2009) [co-edited with Joanna Sassoon]