Title of Presentation
Using Topic Modeling to Enhance Access to Digital Government and Archival Collections
Presentation Type
Presentation
Conference Track
Other
Description
Providing access to digital collections can be problematic, librarians and archivists are inundated with poorly described born-digital materials with scant metadata. Topic modeling, a method of statistical analysis that can discover thematic elements within a set of documents, allows archivists and librarians working with digital collections to describe and make accessible digital material without laborious manual processing.Our presentation will show how libraries can easily implement topic modeling in diverse library environments dealing with digital texts.
Start Date
13-2-2015 2:10 PM
End Date
13-2-2015 2:55 PM
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20157
Using Topic Modeling to Enhance Access to Digital Government and Archival Collections
Providing access to digital collections can be problematic, librarians and archivists are inundated with poorly described born-digital materials with scant metadata. Topic modeling, a method of statistical analysis that can discover thematic elements within a set of documents, allows archivists and librarians working with digital collections to describe and make accessible digital material without laborious manual processing.Our presentation will show how libraries can easily implement topic modeling in diverse library environments dealing with digital texts.
