HathiTrust: Possibilities

Metadata Working GroupCornell University LibraryMarch 21, 2014

HathiTrust is a consortium.

A consortium of over 80 libraries http://www.hathitrust.org/partnership

http://www.hathitrust.org/governanceBoard of Governors

Program Steering CommitteeWorking Groups

Committees

HathiTrust is a digital library.

A continuously growing digital library, currently home of 11M+ books

Statistics and Visualizations (http://www.hathitrust.org/statistics_visualizations )

Almost 500 terabytes3.7M volumes (~33% of total) in the public domainAll volumes indexed in full, and searchable in full

HathiTrust is a digital library.

Cornell patrons can use a Cornell NetID to login

Create Collections (public or private)Download PDFs of any item available in full text Obtain “Enhanced Access” if a CUL affiliate has a

certified print disability (http://www.library.cornell.edu/svcs/disability#access)

HathiTrust is a preservation repository.

HathiTrust is TRAC Certified.Every book, and every page of every book, has a persistent identifier.

Cornell University Library deposits books digitized through the Google partnership.

HathiTrust: getting info out

information =metadata

info about resources

+data

resources themselves

http://www.hathitrust.org/data

APIs: BibAPI

returns bibliographic, rights, and volume information when given a single

or multiple standard identifiers:

OCLC number, LCCN, ISSN, ISBN, HathiTrust Volume ID, HathiTrust record number

http://www.hathitrust.org/bib_api

APIs: DataAPI

retrieves content (page images, OCR, METS and or whole volume

packages) and bibliographic info

http://www.hathitrust.org/data_api

OAI Harvesting

OAI feed (MARC21 and Dublin Core) of public domain materials

http://www.hathitrust.org/data

Hathifiles

tab-delimited files identifying the contents of HathiTrust repository

Posted daily: http://www.hathitrust.org/hathifiles

Described: http://www.hathitrust.org/hathifiles_description