Text Mining with HathiTrust: Empowering Librarians to Support Digital Scholarship Research

This workshop will introduce attendees to text analysis research and the common methods and tools used in this emerging area of scholarship, with particular attention to the HathiTrust Research Center. The workshop\u27s train the trainer curriculum will provide a framework for how librarians can support text data mining, as well as teach transferable skills useful for many other areas of digital scholarly inquiry. Topics include: introduction to gathering, managing, analyzing, and visualizing textual data; hands-on experience with text analysis tools, including the HTRC\u27s off-the-shelf algorithms and datasets, such as the HTRC Extracted Features; and using the command line to run basic text analysis processes. No experience necessary! Attendees must bring a laptop

Text Data Mining Beyond the Open Data Paradigm: Perspectives at the Intersection of Intellectual Property and Ethics

This poster highlights outcomes from an IMLS-funded National Forum project on text data mining with content that is subject to use conditions due to intellectual property rights. It argues that developing strong frameworks for conducting text mining with IP-limited data is an urgent priority for supporting responsible, sustainable research in the twenty-first century.Institute for Museum and Library Services (LG-73-17-0070-17)Ope

"Digging deeper, reaching further: libraries empowering users to mine the HathiTrust Digital Library resources" curriculum

Modern academic librarianship demands reconfigured skillsets and expertise to meet the rapidly evolving, data-driven needs of today’s students, faculty, and researchers as they pursue digital scholarship and produce immense amounts of research data. These rapid developments in user needs and research services speak to an urgent need to provide training for academic librarians to support digital scholarship. We seek to address this need in “Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine the HathiTrust Digital Library Resources,” a three-year project funded by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The curriculum developed by the DDRF project leverages the tools and data from HathiTrust Research Center to provide a “train the trainer” curriculum for library and information professionals on text mining and digital scholarship methods.IMLS #RE-00-15-0112-15Ope