NEH-supported digital humanities projects pave the way for comprehensive computational analysis of complete HathiTrust Digital Library | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-11-02

Summary:

"This fall, HathiTrust, the massive digital library maintained through a global partnership of more 140 major academic institutions, released a set of text and data-mining tools that enable data analysis of its millions of digitized titles. For the repository and the scholars who depend on it for their research, the new tools were a major breakthrough.

Previously, these computational tools were available only for the portion of the HathiTrust collection in the public domain—hampering research on approximately 60 percent of the repository and limiting large-scale analysis of U.S. publications to texts published before 1923...."

Link:

https://www.neh.gov/blog/neh-supported-digital-humanities-projects-pave-way-comprehensive-computational-analysis

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oa.new oa.usa oa.neh oa.humanities oa.funders.public oa.pd oa.mining oa.hathi oa.funders oa.ssh oa.copyright

Date tagged:

11/02/2018, 16:10

Date published:

11/02/2018, 12:10