Tag: data

Reminder: ProQuest demos, including text data mining overview

Posted on by dorner
Tomorrow afternoon (11/13) a team from ProQuest will be on campus to tell us more about some of the products we are considering licensing and to answer questions.  A series of short sessions will be offered following the schedule below (note a few repeat sessions). They will also hold a drawing for two $50 Amazon Gift cards that they will give out at the end of the day.   

These sessions are open to all — librarians, faculty, graduate students, etc.  Anyone with an interest in learning more is welcome.
All sessions will be held in 305 Wurster Hall.  It’s a food-friendly room, and ProQuest is planning to bring in snacks, so come hungry and come curious!

Primary Sources: Europeana – now both a portal and a data center

Posted on by dorner

Since its inception in 2008, Europeana has continued to grow, now providing access to more than 30 million items.

  • Europeana portal is the search engine for the digitized collections of museums, libraries, archives and galleries across Europe.
  • Virtual Exhibitions feature highlights from the collection.
  • Europeana 1914-1918 project brings together community-contributed content from the time of World War One.
  • Europeana 1989 project is collecting stories and memorabilia from the fall of the Iron Curtain, as well as recreating the Baltic Way online.

In addition to serving as a centralized access point to contents from different heritage institutions, Europeana is supporting research with Europeana Labs, which provides access to their metadata records, Europeana APIs, and examples of applications that have been created using these resources.