Excerpt from the written assignment:
"To answer this assignment, I chose to use my personal book collection as the subject of datafication. The starting point was my analog collection of books. After choosing this as my subject I started the process of digitizing and organizing the collection into an excel dataset. The purpose was to create a structured collection that represented the books as both a physical collection but would also enable me to analyse and compare the collection. The dataset consists of 20 books, datafied into 5 variables.
To create this collection, I began by registering each book with a unique ID and then I added the core information and identification, title and picture. I then chose the variables: pages, release year, author, language and my personal rating of the book.

This process illustrates Kitchin’s point that data is not just given object facts, but rather what he calls “Capta” (Kitchin, 2022), elements which have been actively chosen through the choosers criteria. The creation of the dataset is therefore a curatorial act where I decide which aspects of the book collection are important and what becomes data."