(via Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Are you a librarian interested in learning more about digital humanities 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). The DDRF project is holding a series of free all-day workshops through summer 2018 that 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.
Upcoming DDRF workshops will be held in the metro areas of Boston, Kansas City/Lawrence, and in New Orleans at ALA Annual, with more to come later in summer 2018 in San Diego and Washington, DC at the Library of Congress, among other locations. All workshops are free and _no experience is necessary_ to attend!
The full calendar and registration forms for upcoming workshops are at: http://teach.htrc.illinois.edu/workshop-schedule/. Seating will be limited, so please register soon! Contact htrc_workshop@library.illinois.edu with any questions.