HT+Bookworm

HT+Bookworm project creates robust and novel ways for visualising trends in the 14m book HathiTrust Digital Library.

Century-spanning digital library collections are valuable resources for computational social science and the digital humanities, but such scale also makes basic exploration and hypothesis-building difficult. HT+Bookworm allowing scholars to ask questions within detailed sub-facets of the collection. e.g. How the use of gendered terms differed among American and British authors throughout the past two centuries; how has the popularity of different dance fads spiked and ebbed over time.