TEXT MINING, INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL & INFORMATION CENTRES
Information professionals, by virtue of their skills and expertise, are the most suitable professional who are naturally associated with text mining.
They have the specific skills which are required for text mining. They have the ability to use right information tool in right context and have good experience in information retrieval. They are well versed with information retrieval techniques and available products related to information. The following characteristics/skills/ability of information professionals have made them an integral companion of text mining:
• Analytical ability
• Creativity skills
• Problem solving skills
• Consultative
• Listening skills
• Critical skills
• Information retrieval skill All of these skills play very important and dominant role in text-mining. Hence information professionals play a very vital role in text mining.
Information Professional uses text mining technology to facilitate the Information resource centres’ in making administrative or strategic work related decisions. Some of the areas what can be included for this purpose are as:
• Circulation pattern
• Generation of statistics and patterns
• Electronic resource usages
• Collection development
• Web site management
• Evaluation of usage of both onsite and offshore recourses
• Subscription of database logs, and analysis of inter Information resource Centre loan data