Human Relations Area Files: Data Mining and Museum Studies

In this week’s episode, Dr. Carol Ember explains how the Harvard Song Project partnered with HRAF to data mine the cultural record to better understand the variety of ways humans use of song. She also highlights the ways in which HRAF’s structure—as a collection of human-tagged and annotated documents—make it a particularly valuable resource for data miners. In addition, Dr. Peter Peregrine discusses HRAF’s utility to museum curators who may have unidentified objects or objects with little context in their collections. To learn more about HRAF, visit the Human Relations Area Files website.