The document provides an introduction to the Semantic Enterprise Application and Services Repository (SEASR) and text mining. It describes SEASR's emphasis on flexibility, scalability, modularity, and providing a community hub and access to heterogeneous data and computational systems. It also provides examples of SEASR in action, including for citation analysis, entity extraction, audio analysis, and predictive modeling. Finally, it defines text mining as the non-trivial extraction of implicit knowledge from large amounts of textual data.