Examples and Use Cases

Curious what kind of data-driven research and teaching others have done? Here are some examples of what is possible.

How They Did it Guide - In Search of Zora/When Metadata Isn’t Enough: Rescuing the Experiences of Black Women Through Statistical Modeling

• This guide (an approach inspired by Miriam Posner) gives a general overview of a topic modeling project that used the HathiTrust collection.

How They Did it Guide - Textual Geographies

• This guide (an approach inspired by Miriam Posner) gives a general overview of a natural language processing and mapping project that used the HathiTrust collection.

Extracted Features Use Cases and Examples

• Example use cases for how the Extracted Features Dataset can be used for research.

Extracted Features projects and publications

• "In the wild" uses of Extracted features for research, teaching, and reuse.

HTRC Research Impact

• Scholarly articles, datasets, and other research that have made substantial use of HTRC’s tools and services and HathiTrust’s unique data.

Class assignment using HathiTrust+Bookworm 

• How HT+BW was used in a comparative literature course at the University of Michigan.

ACS project reports

• Project write-ups describing processes and outcomes.

Extracting Illustrated Pages from Digital Libraries with Python

•  Programming Historian lesson written by researcher Stephen Krewson.