Google Digital Humanities Awards Recipient Interviews Report
| Title | Google Digital Humanities Awards Recipient Interviews Report |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Authors | Varvel, J. V. E., and A. Thomer |
| Series Title | CIRSS Report No. HTRC1101 |
| Date Published | 12/2011 |
| Institution | Center for Information Research in Science and Scholarship, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| City | Champaign, IL |
| Type | Technical Report |
| Publication Language | eng |
| Keywords | data curation, data delivery, data management, data mining, Data processing, data retrieval, data transformation, data visualization, digital humanities, geoparsing, google, hathitrust research center, htrc, information access, information architecture, information retrieval, linked open data, literary analysis, metadata, ocr, text access, Text analysis, text retrieval, Web services |
| Abstract | As input into the development, design, and improvement of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), recipients of Google’s Digital Humanities Grants were interviewed to identify issues encountered during their projects. This project was guided by the following goals: - Increase empirical understanding of how to identify materials for use by scholars. - Increase empirical understanding of how to provide better access to materials for use by scholars. - Identify meaningful characteristics of content that affect identification, retrieval, and other parameters. - Identify data preprocessing and transformation issues encountered by scholars. - Provide input to inform the architecture of the HTRC related to representation of collections, faceted browsing, identifiers, etc. |
| URL | https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/29936 |
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