Resource: HathiTrust Resource Center Workset Browser

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In my copious spare time I have hacked together a thing I’m calling the HathiTrust Research Center Workset Browser, a (fledgling) tool for doing “distant reading” against corpora from the HathiTrust. [1]

The idea is to: 1) create, refine, or identify a HathiTrust Research Center workset of interest — your corpus, 2) feed the workset’s rsync file to the Browser, 3) have the Browser download, index, and analyze the corpus, and 4) enable to reader to search, browse, and interact with the result of the analysis. With varying success, I have done this with a number of worksets ranging on topics from literature, philosophy, Rome, and cookery. The best working examples are the ones from Thoreau and Austen. [2, 3] The others are still buggy.

 

Source: Eric Lease Morgan: HathiTrust Resource Center Workset Browser