- Tim Bowman, Associate Professor, Dominican University, School of Information Studies ORCID
- Kai Li, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, School of Informaiton Science ORCID
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Determine how Hathi Trust books are used in Syllabi for educational purposes
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Determine what academic domains are using the documents
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Deteremine how difficult the documents are to read
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Matched 306 of 999 books from Open Syllabi lists to Hathi Trust catalog
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Visualizations demonstrate in what academic domains the Hathi Trust documents are being used (without exact matching to edition)
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Calculates Flesch-Kincaid Readability and Grade Scores for each document
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We analyzed Hathi Trust Metadta subject headings
- Idea is to compare document SH with academic domains in which document is assigned
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We grabbed Goodreads review data to see ranking of book
- Idea is to then grab actual text reviews to analyze how the "public" rank and talk about the documents