Although I cannot thing of how I might use data mining in my current projects, it could be useful in the future. I am impressed with Overview, which would be especially useful in working with large corpora of digital documents. As government documents become increasingly digitized–emails replacing typewritten memoranda, e.g.–data mining tools will become more helpful and even necessary.
I propose to develop a regional history website focused on the history of California’s Central Valley. Inspirations for the site include Larry Cebula’s “Northwest History” blog at Eastern Washington University [http://northwesthistory.blogspot.com/] and the University of Central Florida’s RICHES (Regional Initiative for Experiences, and Stories of Central Florida) [http://northwesthistory.blogspot.com/]. It will be developed in partnership with the CSU Bakersfield’s Walter Stiern Library and CSUB Public History Institute