From: CRL Events <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:35 PM Thanks for your interest in the recent webinar hosted by the Center for Research Libraries, “Text and Data Mining in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Strategies and Tools,” presented by Peter Leonard and Lindsay King of Yale University. We are pleased to let you know that the recording of the webinar is now available on CRL’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrX7cM1FC_A In the webinar Leonard and King discussed reasons for the current interest in TDM, what makes a good project, and the implications for libraries of this growing research trend. They also demonstrated Yale’s Robots Reading Vogue platform, showing various projects based on the ProQuest database. They responded to significant questions and observations from webinar participants, including how to get good quality OCR from non-western alphabets or earlier fonts, the relative quality of OCR from various news databases, and what tools to use for topic modeling. One underlying theme was how libraries can preserve fair use for access to data when negotiating licensing contracts. CRL uses feedback like this to plan future programming. We hope to offer another webinar in our series on TDM sometime during the upcoming academic year, diving more deeply into issues surrounding “perpetual access”. CRL Events Center for Research Libraries 6050 South Kenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 [log in to unmask]