Open AccessFrom Digital Library to Open Datasets
Author(s) -
Rachel Wittmann,
Aneatrour,
Rebekah Cummings,
Jeremy Myntti
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
information technology and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5226
pISSN - 0730-9295
DOI - 10.6017/ital.v38i4.11101
Subject(s) - digital library , computer science , world wide web , digital collections , data science , digital humanities , scale (ratio) , information retrieval , library science , geography , cartography , art , literature , poetry
This article discusses the burgeoning “collections as data” movement within the fields of digital libraries and digital humanities. Faculty at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library are developing a collections as data strategy by leveraging existing Digital Library and Digital Matters programs. By selecting various digital collections, small- and large-scale approaches to developing open datasets are explored. Five case studies chronicling this strategy are reviewed, along with testing the datasets using various digital humanities methods, such as text mining, topic modeling, and GIS (geographic information system).