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2014 TEI/DHCS Plenary Session
Evanston, IL
Mike Furlough
Executive Director, HathiTrust
Caveat auditor
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HATHITRUST.ORG
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Bethany Nowviskie, “Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene” http://nowviskie.org/2014/anthropocene/
From The Art of Google Books: http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/74936156541/married-employees-hand-overbookplate-and
From Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001284.html
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HathiTrust Mission
To contribute to the common good by collecting,
organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the
record of human knowledge.
Efforts include, but are not limited to
…building comprehensive collections co-owned and
managed by partners.
…enabling access by users with print disabilities.
…supporting computational research with the collections.
…stimulating shared collection storage strategies among
libraries.
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HathiTrust Members
Allegheny College
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Technology
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Northwestern University
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The Ohio State University
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de Madrid
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Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Utah State University
Vanderbilt University
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Wake Forest University
Washington University
Yale University Library
Shared Responsibilities
• Leverage expertise across institutions
– Collective work
• Distributed Infrastructure
– Preservation repository and access services
• University of Michigan
• Mirror site: Indiana University
– Metadata management services (Zephir)
• California Digital Library
– HathiTrust Research Center
• Indiana University and University of Illinois
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Growth of Collection
14,000,000
12,104,793
12,000,000
9,966,572
10,599,355 10,878,121
10,000,000
7,836,698
8,000,000
5,221,092
6,000,000
4,000,000
2,477,871
2,000,000
0
2008
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2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Language Distribution (1)
Latin, 1%
Remaining
Languages, 13%
The top 10 languages make up
~87% of all content
Arabic, 2%
Italian, 3%
Japanese, 3%
English, 49%
Russian, 4%
Chinese, 4%
Spanish, 5%
German, 9%
French, 7%
* As of February 17, 2014
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Language Distribution (2)
The next 40
languages
make up
~12% of
total
Slovak, 1%
Turkish,-Ottoman, 1%
Malayalam, 1%
Finnish,
1%
Romanian, 1%
Malay,
Slovenian, 1%
Telugu, 1%
1%
Greek,MultipleArmenian, 1%
Yiddish, 1%
Ancient-(tolanguages
Panjabi, 1%
1453), 1%Bulgarian
Nepali, 0%
, 1%
, 1% Serbian, 1%
Marathi,
1%
Vietnames
Catalan, 1%
e, 1%
Ukrainian, 1%
Polish, 7%
Greek,-Modern(1453--), 2%
Sanskrit, 2%
Norwegian, 2%
Portuguese, 7%
Dutch, 5%
Hebrew, 5%
Hindi, 5%
Bengali, 2%
Hungarian, 2%
Tamil, 2%
Persian, 2%
Indonesian, 4%
Croatian, 3%
Czech, 3%
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Korean, 4%
Danish, 3%
Turkish, 3%
Urdu, 3% Thai, 3%
Swedish, 4%
* As of February 17, 2014
Dates
0-1500, 0.04%
1500-1599, 0.07%
1600-1699, 0.01%
2000-2009 1700-1799, 0.01%
10%
1850-1899 1800-1849
3%
1910-1919 1900-1909
10%
4%
4%
1920-1929
4%
1930-1939
4%
1940-1949
4%
1960-1969
11%
1990-1999
14%
1980-1989
14%
1970-1979
13%
1950-1959
6%
* As of February 17, 2014
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Preservation with Access
• Preservation
– TRAC-certified
– Long-term commitments on digital content facilitate
planning, decision-making
• Discovery
– Bibliographic and full-text search of all materials
– Mechanisms for local loading of records
• Access and Use
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Full text search (all users)
Public domain and open access works (all users)
Collections and APIs (all users)
Lawful uses of in-copyright works (members)
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Title page of edition of JF Cooper’s Satanstoe presented in the Making of America database. (Accessed October 18, 2014)
Spine of edition of JF Cooper’s Satanstoe
presented in the Early American Fiction database.
(Accessed October 18, 2014)
6 of 15 records for different copies of JF Cooper’s Satanstoe presented HathiTrust. (Accessed October 18, 2014)
Some Issues
• Collection strategies
– What else?
– Associated access and preservation questions
• The “Evolving Scholarly Record”
– The book and the network
– Fragmentation and loss
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Thank you!
furlough@hathitrust.org
@MikeFurlough