Guides: HIST 5320 Religion and the Enlightenment: March 15 Session

Plan for Today

The plan for today is to brainstorm, discuss, and consolidate ideas into a unified theme. We will also begin building out our shared Excel file, linked below. There are Google Colab Notebook examples below the Excel file link that we can use as examples. By next Tuesday (03/22) the Libraries will have built any custom tools needed for this project.

Shared Excel Metadata File

Link to Metadata (XLSX)

Resources to Discuss

We will create custom tools based on the needs of this class. The following are merely examples to get the imaginative juices flowing.

Calculate Similarities & Top Keywords Script
- State of the Union Addresses
- This shows an example of TF-IDF keywords and document similarity based on cosine similarity.
- Cosine Similarity–a metric used to determine how similar phrases are. It works by measuring the distance between vectors, which are lists containing the words in a file.This generates a single score representing how similar two files are.
Gale Term Mining Script
- Using content from DSL on Monstrous Births
- This shows an example of term context analysis
- Link to resulting dashboard (non-public)
Location Entity Recognition
- Use item from Project Gutenberg
- Example of named entity recognition and mappiing
- Aoivxd2gKgpSXjlw1yIMg7jjAo-ioEiYhICo-d6a76eXnDWXkf4Vt1DbU9otPHfc
Mining Library Databases
- Works with Ebsco, Scopus, & Web of Science
- Example of working with traditional database

HIST 5320 Religion and the Enlightenment

Plan for Today

Shared Excel Metadata File

Resources to Discuss

University Libraries