Video Presentation: Mining the Native American Authored Works in HathiTrust for Insights

The video presentation embedded below was presented earlier this week during 2022 HathiTrust Community Week.

From the Description:

In 2020, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded a special round of the HathiTrust Research Center’s Advanced Collaborative Support program, the Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Dissemination/ (SCWAReD). The goal of these projects is to explore new methods for creating, analyzing, and reusing curated digital library collections, along with research data derived from these collections, with a focus on historically under-resourced and marginalized textual communities. This specific project seeks to compile a collection of Native American authored works in HathiTrust and apply various text mining methods to the collection to reveal the coverage, subjects, perspectives, and writing styles of Native authors. The project is expected to develop a database of Native American authors and the bibliographic information of their works, create a reusable workset of Native American authored works in HathiTrust, identify potential gaps in the HathiTrust corpus on this textual community, and provide insights into the characteristics of the community by text mining their works. Join the project team for an overview of their work and findings to date. Presented by: Kun Lu, Associate Professor, Raina Heaton, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies, and Raymond Orr, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies (University of Oklahoma).

See Also: More HathiTrust Community Week Presentations (2022 Presentations Begin at #12 on the Playlist)

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