Teaching with Google Books: research, copyright, and data mining

Rinne, Nathan Teaching with Google Books: research, copyright, and data mining., 2012 . In Macalester College Library Technology Conference, St. Paul, MN. (US), 14-15 March 2012. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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Google’s Google Books site is a rich resource that is probably underutilized by most educators. It has all kinds of potential for a) getting students into the research process in a way that they will enjoy (for example, they can see how a famous quote has been used/quoted, find out which books cite the journal article they are interested in, or check to see if a specific book covers a topic that they want to explore, etc.); b) teaching them about the deeper civic purpose and the evolving state of copyright law; and, c) exploring, with the help of Google Book's Ngram viewer, the promise and ethics surrounding the issue of data-mining and “non-consumptive” research, or research that is accomplished by "mining" books for data, as opposed to reading them.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Google Books, copyright law, fair use, research, metadata, digital humanities, data mining, privacy
Subjects: L. Information technology and library technology
Depositing user: Nathan Rinne
Date deposited: 12 Mar 2012
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:21
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16727

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