[Wactclc-primo] JSTOR text analyzer - BETA

[Guidry, Wade]

And just a btw, if you're a Reddit user, and don't follow it already, /r/Libraries turns up some interesting stuff like this sometimes.




Wade Guidry - wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>
Library Consortium Services Manager
Washington Community & Technical Colleges Library Consortium (WACTCLC)
(509) 760-4474

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Subject: [Wactclc-primo] JSTOR text analyzer - BETA

Sorry, not a Primo item, but something related to discovery.

I just came across this interesting search tool via a mention in a Reddit thread.

http://www.jstor.org/analyze/

Very interesting. Kind of a new twist on searching I haven't seen before.

Instead of trying to determine search terms on your own, upload a related document of some kind, and allow an intelligent algorithm suggest where to look next.

Sort of similar to word-clouding, but instead of just identifying commonly used words and displaying them, sifts through a document, and (I imagine) compares the terms to some kind of controlled vocabularies, to come up with suggested resources, "where to look next" 's.

Might be useful for untraining or beginning researchers, not used to searching.

Imagine something like this built into Primo.


Wade Guidry - wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>
Library Consortium Services Manager
Washington Community & Technical Colleges Library Consortium (WACTCLC)
(509) 760-4474

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