(via Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Are you a librarian interested in learning more about digital scholarship methods and text mining?
Consider taking a text mining workshop hosted by the IMLS-funded project “Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine the HathiTrust Digital Library Resources” (DDRF)!
Register for our final summer series of workshops through August 2018, which will introduce library and information professionals to text mining and related digital scholarship methods, with a focus on the tools and data from the HathiTrust Research Center. The aims of the DDRF workshops are to empower librarians to become more conversant in digital scholarship and engage with digital projects at their institutions.
Here are some of the exciting things you can expect to learn at a DDRF workshop:
- Building a corpus of texts in a HTRC Workset, and using it to conduct text analysis on your collection of works;
- Gathering data through web scraping;
- Cleaning data, dirty OCR, and clean OCR;
- Using Python for text mining;
- Topic modeling and other approaches for text analysis.
Summer 2018 DDRF workshops will be held in the metro areas of Houston, Seattle, San Diego, Milwaukee, New York, Washington, DC and Honolulu, and also at the 2018 IFLA World Library and Information Congress. All are encouraged to attend, and no experience is necessary!
The full calendar and registration forms for upcoming workshops are at:
Seating will be limited, so please register soon! Contact htrc_workshop@library.illinois.edu with any questions.
These workshop events are funded in part by IMLS award #RE-00-15-0112-15.