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On Feb 3, 2021, at 11:42 AM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Both clouds include words like "library", "information", and "data". But I >> was more interested in prominent words in one set and not another. For >> example, the earliest chunk (1971-1974) included the following words: >> >> number; time; file; automation; computer; >> marc; system; catalog; book; will; records >> >> But the newest chuck (2016-2020) did not include those words but it did >> include different ones: >> >> digital; web; https; search; research; users; >> content; technology; university; doi; metadata >> >> Based on a tertiary glance, the older literature surrounded MARC records, >> but the newer literature is: 1) more academic, and 2) has embraced the >> Internet. Similarly, "cataloging" has morphed into "metadata". > > Looks like a shift from operational to general concepts (except a few that > point at other things like https and doi). With much greater complexity > everywhere, one would hope discussion isn't dominated by super basic stuff. > > But with greater specialization, such terms may simply represent lowest > common denominator terminology that appears everywhere (like articles, > prepositions, conjunctions, etc) rather than actual content. > > -- > kyle Kyle, I'm sure your assessment has a great deal of validity and is definitely more nuanced than mine, and on a similar but different note, I appreciate the ability to make such comparisons, to be able to extract this sort of information quickly & easily, and to make it accessible. -- Eric Lease Morgan Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship Hesburgh Libraries University of Notre Dame