Improving Digital Libraries' Provision of Digital Humanities Datasets: A Case Study of HTRC Literature Dataset

被引：2

作者：

Hu, Yuerong ^{[1
]}

Jiang, Ming ^{[1
]}

Underwood, Ted ^{[1
]}

Downie, J. Stephen ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Illinois, Sch Informat Sci, Urbana, IL 61801 USA

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM/IEEE JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES IN 2020, JCDL 2020 | 2020年

关键词：

digital libraries; digital humanities; cultural analytics; datasets;

D O I：

10.1145/3383583.3398621

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

This paper investigates the limitations and challenges of the curated datasets provided by digital libraries in support of digital humanities research. This presented work provides a use case utilizing an English literature dataset of 178,381 volumes curated by the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) for measuring the change of three literature genres. These volumes were selected from over 17 million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. We demonstrate our methods and workflow for improving the representativeness and scholarly usability of the existing datasets. We analyzed and effectively overcame three common limitations: duplicate volumes, uneven distribution of data and OCR errors. We suggest that stakeholders of digital libraries should flag and address these limitations to improve their provisions' usability in the context of digital humanities research.

引用

页码：405 / 408

页数：4

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