I’m willing to lead a session that will introduce attendees to the text mining tools and services of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), the research arm of the HathiTrust Digital Library, a nonprofit consortium currently containing digital scans of nearly 14 million books.

At the HTRC, based jointly at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University Bloomington, we seek to make this unprecedented collection accessible for scholars performing large-scale textual research, by supporting the HathiTrust Digital Library through a suite of computational tools built around creating and working with customized, user-created sub-collections.

This session will provide an overview of the functionalities of the HTRC Portal, how to create a sub-collection in the HTRC Portal and run algorithms against your collection, and if we have time, we’ll take a look at the HTRC + Bookworm tool for discovering lexical trends across a large corpus.

If you’re interested in joining this workshop, sign up for an HTRC account in advance here: analytics.hathitrust.org/

UPDATE:  Click on this link for the slides from the HTRC text mining session!

To what extent do we have responsibilities for educating our students about privacy? For avoiding assignments that expose them to privacy compromises? For converting them to privacy advocates?

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