TDM Literacy for the Future: Campus Partnerships, Licensing, and the Connection to AI
Recorded on 11/12/2025
Posted in The Authority File
Episode 449
In the second episode of our two-part series with ACRL, Whitney Kramer and Iliana Burgos, editors of Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians, move into the applications of Text and Data Mining (TDM). They start by highlighting key partnerships essential to TDM’s success on campus and encourage librarians to stay engaged in researcher trends and the local community. Next, they chat about licensing and legal issues, identifying how vendors are responding to the uptick in TDM practices in scholarship. Looking ahead to the future of Text and Data Mining, our guests share how TDM and AI literacies go hand-in-hand and why broader data literacy efforts prepare librarians to adapt and respond to fast-moving technology trends.
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About the guests:
Whitney Kramer
Research and Data Librarian, Catherwood Library
Cornell University
Whitney Kramer is the research and data librarian at Catherwood Library at Cornell University. In this role, she supports students and faculty in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and the Economics, and Statistics and Data Science departments who work with both structured and unstructured data. Her research interests include data literacy and the usage of text data in social science research. Her work has been published in The Data Literacy Cookbook, Choice, Journal of New Librarianship, and ResearchDataQ. Previously, she was the entrepreneurship and public services librarian at the Roanoke Public Libraries in Roanoke, Virginia, and the business research librarian at Lippincott Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
Iliana Burgos
Emerging Data Practices Librarian, Digital Scholarship Services
Cornell University Library
Iliana Burgos is the emerging data practices librarian at Digital Scholarship Services at Cornell University Library. She supports researchers in exploring digital and computational approaches to humanities scholarship. Burgos specializes in text data management and computational text analysis methods guided by open scholarship principles. A Ronald E. McNair Scholar and American Library Association Spectrum Scholar, her research engages text data and algorithmic literacies, critical platform studies, and community-based data justice movements. She previously worked in community outreach roles as a Carolina Academic Library associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Wilmington Institute Free Library of Delaware.