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Empirical Analysis of the Characters in Library Crowdfunding Projects

Ruan Guangce, Xia Lei, Gao Yanan   

  • Online:2016-11-15 Published:2016-11-25

Abstract:

By the text mining, the article discusses the characteristics of the crowdfunding projects in foreign libraries. It starts by discussing the dimensions of the crowdfunding projects, then, based on the 154 library crowdfunding projects in Kickstarter platform, uses text mining, topic identification and
correlation factor analysis to summarize the characteristics. At last, it draws conclusions on how to carry out the crowdfunding successfully in library.

Key words: Crowdfunding, Library, Text mining