Unlimited Priorities LLC, a firm specializing in support for small and medium-size companies in the information and publishing industries, and The North Carolina State University Libraries (NCSU Libraries), have collaborated to open up Accessible Archives' databases for text and data mining for client libraries.
Text and data mining (TDM) encompasses dozens of computationally-intensive techniques and procedures used to examine and transform data and metadata. At its core, TDM uses high-speed computing technology to examine large data sets in order to recognize and model meaningful patterns and rules.
A primary area within the Archival Initiatives Division of Unlimited Priorities is the management and distribution of archival collections for both commercial and library clients, including identifying and facilitating new opportunities such as the dissemination of hard-to-obtain information or the digitization of rare and special collections previously unavailable to scholars. Data mining is a part of the library community that Unlimited Priorities supports completely.
The NCSU Libraries is currently undertaking a forward-thinking initiative to more strongly align its collections with emerging needs in research informatics, including providing its users the capacity for text and data mining of purchased and licensed resources.
