Events

DH Workshop: Introduction to the Hathi Trust Research Center

Event Info

  • Date: Thursday, 03/16/2017
  • Time: 10:00AM-2:00PM
  • Place: Alderman Library, Room 421

Progressively greater access to digitized books and documents is creating opportunities for researchers to ask new data-driven questions about literary and linguistic change, history, and cultural trends. HathiTrust is a consortium of research libraries, and its digital library currently contains over 15 million items. The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) seeks to make this very large collection accessible for non-consumptive research via algorithmic text analysis. This hands-on session will introduce attendees to the HTRC’s tools and services, including how to execute algorithms against user-created sub-collections of text, how to use the HathiTrust+Bookworm tool for lexical trend discovery, and how to perform text analysis using HTRC-developed infrastructure and datasets.”

The workshop, co-sponsored by the UVA Library’s departments of Arts & Humanities Research, Research Data Services, and the Scholars’ Lab, is open to faculty, students and staff.  Lunch will be provided.  Please join us!

Questions?

Contact Scholars' Lab Assistant Director for Public Services Laura Miller.