HATHITRUST A Shared Digital Repository

HathiTrust: A Second Life for Library Collections

Jeremy YorkExploring Humanities Cyberinfrastructure

April 30, 2013

PartnershipArizona State UniversityBaylor UniversityBoston CollegeBoston UniversityBrandeis UniversityBrown UniversityCalifornia Digital LibraryCarnegie Mellon UniversityColumbia UniversityCornell UniversityDartmouth CollegeDuke UniversityEmory UniversityFlorida State UniversityGetty Research InstituteHarvard University LibraryIndiana UniversityIowa State UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityKansas State UniversityLafayette CollegeLibrary of CongressMassachusetts Institute of

TechnologyMcGill University`Michigan State UniversityNew York Public LibraryNew York UniversityNorth Carolina Central

University

North Carolina StateUniversity

Northwestern UniversityThe Ohio State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State

UniversityPrinceton UniversityPurdue UniversityStanford UniversitySyracuse UniversityTexas A&M UniversityTufts UniversityUniversidad Complutense

de MadridUniversity of AlbertaUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of California

BerkeleyDavisIrvineLos AngelesMercedRiversideSan DiegoSan FranciscoSanta BarbaraSanta Cruz

The University of ChicagoUniversity of ConnecticutUniversity of Delaware

University of FloridaUniversity of HoustonUniversity of IllinoisUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoThe University of IowaUniversity of KansasUniversity of MarylandUniversity of MiamiUniversity of MichiganUniversity of MinnesotaUniversity of MissouriUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnThe University of North

Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of Notre DameUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PittsburghUniversity of UtahUniversity of VermontUniversity of VirginiaUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Wisconsin-

MadisonUtah State UniversityVanderbilt UniversityVirginia TechWake Forest UniversityWashington UniversityYale University Library

Digital Repository

• Launched 2008• Initial focus on digitized book and journal

content– 10.7 million total volumes – 5.6 million book titles– 278,000 serial titles– 3.3 million public domain (~31%)

Full-text SearchReadingCollections

Lawful uses under specific terms and conditions: http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#ic-access

APIsDatasetsResearch Center

* Photo by ben.gallaher CC-BY http://bit.ly/ZY040K

Research Center Key Ideas

• Bring researchers to the data• Evolve around user demand• Start with public domain materials• Support non-consumptive research

Research Center

• FAQ– http://bit.ly/XkZKev

• Listserv– http://bit.ly/12KB3t7

• Portal: browse volume lists and algorithms, execute algorithms, view results

• Catalog (Blacklight): assemble worksets• Sandbox: can run own algorithms