What is HathiTrustand

Why is it relevant to research libraries?

‘Sourcing and Scaling’ brought to the collective collection

What is HathiTrust?

HathiTrust is attempting nothing short of creating a comprehensive preservation repository of published literature, primarily though not exclusively through digitization.

Content Distribution

6,947,494 – Total1,567,058 – Public Domain

* As of October 11, 2010

Language Distribution (1)

The Top 10 languages make up close to 86% of total content

* As of October 11, 2010

Language Distribution (2)

The next 40 languages make up ~14% of total

* As of October 11, 2010

Dates

* As of October 11, 2010

Originating Institution

* As of October 11, 2010

Content over time

* As of October 11, 2010

HathiTrust is about collections, writ large, and not about Google digitization.

The first order of HathiTrust business is long-term preservation of this digital content, and we don’t believe in preservation without access.

HathiTrust takes the business of sustainability seriously, with regard to governance, finances and technology.

Governance

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Executive Committee

Strategic Advisory Board

Strategic Advisory BoardBudget/Finances

Decision-making

Guidance on Policy, Planning

Executive Committee

• Paul Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, UM• Laine Farley, Executive Director, CDL• John King, Vice Provost for Academic Information, UM• Paula Kaufman, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, UI• Brian Schottlaender, University Librarian, UCSD• Ed Van Gemert, UW – Madison (ex officio)• Brenda Johnson, Dean of Libraries, IU• Brad Wheeler, Chief Information Officer, IU• John Wilkin, Executive Director of HathiTrust and

Associate University Librarian, LIT, UM

Strategic Advisory Board

• Ed Van Gemert (Chair), UW - Madison• John Butler, AUL for Information Technology, U Minn• Patricia Cruse, Director, Preservation, CDL• Bernie Hurley, Director, Library Technologies, UC Berkeley• R. Bruce Miller, University Librarian, UC - Merced• Sarah Pritchard, University Librarian, Northwestern• Paul Soderdahl, Director, LIT, U Iowa• John Wilkin, Executive Director, HathiTrust (ex officio)• Robert Wolven, Columbia University

… and the future

• October 2011 Constitutional Convention• Delegates from institutions that are

participating by October 31st, 2010• Weighted voting model to reflect varying

levels of investment• Formal review of HathiTrust by SAB in early

2011 (in time for Constitutional Convention)• Framing the next stage of governance,

refinement of new cost model

all of the reasonable costs of sustaining the archive—including replacement costs and a sort of insurance policy—are combined to create a sort of atomic cost unit (in this case, a GB of content)

How much does it cost?

Financial contributions of partners

HathiTrust Functional Framework

Mission and goals• Mission: “to contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing,

preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge.”• Goals

– To build a reliable and increasingly comprehensive digital archive of library materials converted from print that is co-owned and managed by a number of academic institutions.

– To dramatically improve access to these materials in ways that, first and foremost, meet the needs of the co-owning institutions.

– To help preserve these important human records by creating reliable and accessible electronic representations.

– To stimulate redoubled efforts to coordinate shared storage strategies among libraries, thus reducing long-term capital and operating costs of libraries associated with the storage and care of print collections.

– To create and sustain this “public good” in a way that mitigates the problem of free-riders.

– To create a technical framework that is simultaneously responsive to members through the centralized creation of functionality and sufficiently open to the creation of tools and services not created by the central organization.

A global change in the library environment

June 2010Median duplication: 31%

June 2009Median duplication: 19%

Academic print book collection already substantially duplicated in mass digitized book corpus

an ARL institution that wishes to use HathiTrust as part of a larger strategy—part of a “cloud” strategy

The HathiTrust Business Model, v.2: Costs based on holdings overlap and the perceived benefits we derive

For public domain volumes: (PD*X*C)/N

For a given in copyright volume:IC=(C*X)/H

new cost model: http://www.hathitrust.org/cost

sharing in the curation; having a voice in shaping the future

Collective digital curation

driving down costs

reducing bibliographic indeterminacy

making meaningful decisions about formats and quality

increasing discoverability

consolidating development talent

improving strength of archiving

Partner Status

• As of October 11th– 33 Contributing partner libraries– 1 Sustaining partner library

• In final stages of contract review or pending announcement– 5 Contributing partner libraries– 6 Sustaining partner libraries

scale!

“transfer resource[s] away from 'infrastructure' and towards user engagement.”

Lorcan Dempsey

Inviting participation…

http://www.hathitrust.org/join