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What happens if someone wants to integrate textual content that they have on their own, with HTRC materials? Unfortunately, that (taking data from other sources) is not currently on the radar. But if someone were to want to augment their analysis with additional data, that is on the radar — for example, if a user were to augment their analysis by validating with a dictionary — that kind of thing is on the radar. But augmenting the data itself with an additional corpus — that has not been on the agenda.
When faculty come and talk with librarians about analysis of digitized text, there are three main types of use cases:
1) They bring their own text
2) They bring a set of texts that they would like to use HTRC as a reference corpus for
3) They bring specific texts that they want to compare with texts that are in the HT corpus
No matter how big the HT corpus is, or how powerful the existing algorithms are, if the existing (corpus + algorithms) do not meet the needs of the specific problem that the user is trying to solve, then the user will not use the resources.