Hi all,

I'm interested in analyzing the list archives with a goal of studying 
how concepts move through the list over time, the relationship (or 
non-relationship) between discussions in the list and eventual 
implementations and practices in the broader library community, the 
zeitgeist over time of an active development community, etc.  I'm not 
sure about the tools and products at the moment, but the outcomes would 
be anonymous and there would be no e-mail harvest of any kind, 
especially and specifically any commercial harvesting.  An initial idea 
as an example of what I'm thinking about is to generate word clouds that 
could give a snapshot of what's going on over some defined period of 
time, or concepts most closely associated with a particular term, or an 
overlap analysis against one of the library science databases.  Stuff 
like that.

Eric Lease Morgan, the list admin, can provide an archive of the list, 
but I wanted to check with all of you before I asked for it.

Cheers,

Paul
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