Subject guides: Text and data mining: Case studies

This page outlines different case studies and use cases. The librarian-researcher case studies highlight the interaction between library professionals, researchers, scholarly resources and tools, while the external case studies focus on the research impact from text and data mining activities.

Librarian-Researcher case studies

Content Extraction from Web of Science
This case study shows the interplay between researchers, library professionals and licensed databases to get the appropriate content and licensing sorted before the next part of the research project can begin.
Digital Humanities Assessment Case Study
This case study shows the interplay between lecturers/researchers, licensed databases, open data, students and librarians to get the appropriate content and licensing sorted before the student assessment can be tested, clarified and set.

External case studies

Deconstructing Climate Change: facilitating network analysis of scientific influence
This research project brought together three leading academic institutions, The University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and INSEAD and was conducted in partnership with Clarivate Analytics (a provider of intellectual property and scientific information, decision support tools and services) to access Clarivate's Custom Data Sets based on their Web of Science Core Collection.
An Epidemiology of Information: Data Mining the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Virginia Tech's project on using newspapers to study 1918 influenza, funded through the "Digging into Data Challenge" of the National Endowment for the Humanities.