Save the Date! ‘Text Mining with HathiTrust’ tutorial at JCDL 2019

 

Are you a librarian or an LIS-adjacent researcher or student interested in learning more about text mining and related digital scholarship methods? Mark your calendar for a full-day tutorial that will introduce library and information professionals to text mining, with a focus on the tools and data from the HathiTrust Research Center.

 

When: June 6

Where: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (in coordination with the 2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries)

Registration: Coming soon!

                   

This hands-on tutorial is part of a program supported by the IMLS-funded project "Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine the HathiTrust Digital Library Resources." The aims of the DDRF workshops are to empower library and information science professionals to become more conversant in digital scholarship and engage with digital projects at their institutions.

 

Read the full tutorial abstract on the JCDL website: https://2019.jcdl.org/program/tutorials/tutorial5/  

 

A limited number of reimbursements up to $600 for conference/tutorial registration and/or eligible travel expenses are available to tutorial attendees. If interested, please fill out this form with your information and a brief statement of need and impact: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/7376698

Attendees can choose to just attend this workshop independently, or the full 2019 JCDL. More information is available on the JCDL 2019 website: https://2019.jcdl.org/