HATHITRUST A Shared Digital Repository HathiTrust Outside-In University of Michigan Law School June 14, 2011 Jeremy York HathiTrust Project Librarian Outline • Front end • What you see • Backend – – – – – – – About (Mission and Goals) Governance Content Services (including differences from Google) How work gets done Costs Shared Strategies/Benefits Front End Skip navigation link Info about SSD service & link to accessibility page Descriptive headings added (hidden from GUI with CSS) Added labels & descriptive titles to forms & ToC table Access keys for navigating pages with keyboard Images used for style are in css so no need to use alt tags Access Matrix Type of work Public domain worldwide Public domain in the US Search – Bib and Full text World View Full-PDF download Print on Demand World World World US World if no restrictions, Partners if restrictions US if no restrictions, US partners if restrictions World if no restrictions Open World Access (+Creative Commons) In World copyright (and undetermin ed) World US Print Section 108 disabilities (preservation uses) Partners N/A worldwide US Partners World with Partners permission worldwide if no restrictions Not Not available Not Partners available available US and worldwide, where applicable N/A N/A Partners US and worldwide, where applicable Backend About Partnership Arizona State University Boston University Baylor University California Digital Library Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Duke University Emory University Harvard University Library Indiana University Johns Hopkins University Library of Congress Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michigan State University New York University New York Public Library North Carolina Central University North Carolina State University Northwestern University The Ohio State University The Pennsylvania State University Princeton University Purdue University Stanford University Texas A&M University Universidad Complutense de Madrid University of California Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced Riverside San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara Santa Cruz The University of Chicago University of Illinois University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Iowa University of Maryland University of Michigan University of Minnesota The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Utah University of Virginia University of Washington University of WisconsinMadison Utah State University Yale University Library Digital Repository • Launched 2008 • Initial focus on digitized book and journal content • “Light” archive – As accessible as possible within the bounds of law The Name • The meaning behind the name – Hathi (hah-tee)--Hindi for elephant – Big, strong – Never forgets, wise – Secure – Trustworthy Mission • To contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge Goals • Comprehensive collection • Preservation…with Access • Shared strategies – – – – Collection management, development Preservation Copyright Efficient user services • Openness Governance Governance Budget/Finances Decision-making Strategic Advisory Board Executive Committee HathiTrust 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, Deputy Director of Libraries, 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), Deputy Director of Libraries, University of Wisconsin - Madison • John Butler, AUL for Information Technology, University of Minnesota • Patricia Cruse, Director, Preservation, CDL • Todd Grappone, AUL for Digital Initiatives & IT, UCLA • Julia Kochi, Director, Digital Library and Collections, UC San Francisco • Sarah Pritchard, University Librarian, Northwestern University • Paul Soderdahl, Director, LIT, University of Iowa • John Wilkin, Executive Director, HathiTrust (ex officio) • Robert Wolven, Columbia University Strategic Advisory Board Constitutional Convention • October 2011 • Delegates from each institution and consortium – Carry certain number of votes determined according to formula approved by Executive Committee • 3-year review • Proposals – Print management – Ballot proposals Content What is in HathiTrust? • • • • 8,825,372 Total volumes 2,407,570 Public Domain 4,819,000 Book titles 214,719 Serial titles * As of June 14, 2011 Content Sources * As of June 13, 2011 Content Distribution * As of June 13, 2011 Dates * As of June 13, 2011 Breakdown of HathiTrust book corpus by publication date Bibliographic Indeterminacy and the Scale of Problems and Opportunities of "Rights" in Digital Collection Building – 2/2011 Breakdown of HathiTrust book corpus by publication date Language Distribution (1) The top 10 languages make up ~86% of all content * As of June 13, 2011 Language Distribution (2) The next 40 languages make up ~13% of total * As of June 13, 2011 Content over time 100% Chicago 90% Madrid 80% Columbia 70% LoC Harvard 60% Minnesota 50% Indiana 40% Princeton NYPL 30% Cornell 20% Wisconsin 10% California 0% Michigan * As of June 13, 2011 Content Growth Services Services (1) • Ingest – Book and Journal content • Google • Internet Archive • In-house, other vendor digitization – Images, Audio, Born Digital (coming soon…) • Two parts – Content – Bibliographic metadata Services (2) • Long-term preservation – Bit-level, migration – Standard and open formats (ITU G4 TIFF, JPEG2000, JPG, Unicode) – Validation, integrity, redundancy – OAIS • How reliable is it? – DRAMBORA, TRAC Technology - OAIS MARC record extensions (Aleph) Rights DB GROOVE (JHOVE) Page Turner HathiTrust API OAI GeoIP DB CNRI Handles [Solr] Google Internet Archive In-house Conversion ; GRIN Internal Data Loading METS/PREMIS object TIFF G4/JPEG2000 OCR MD5 checksums Isilon Site Replication TSM MD5 checksum validation Technology METS object PNG OCR PDF Quality • • • • Partner Digitization Google Digitization Quality work / Volume certification feedback@issues.hathitrust.org Quality Services (3) • Preservation…with Access – As part of preservation, service to partners, and as public good – Discovery • Bibliographic (temporary catalog, OCLC/HathiTrust catalog) • Full-text – Reading • Interface optimized for users with print disabilities – Collections Services (4) • Rights Management – Rights Database – Copyright review • IMLS Grant awarded to University of Michigan 2008 to determine copyright status of books published in US between 1923 and 1963 • 18 staff members, 4 institutions – – – – Indiana University University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Wisconsin • 140,000 reviewed through CRMS • 77,500 (54%) in public domain Copyright status of books published pre-1923 and US works published 1923-1963 Copyright status of books published pre-1923 and US works published 1923-1963 Services (5) • Data Availability – Tab-delimited inventory files – Bibliographic API – Data API – OAI feed of public domain – SFX target – Summon Some Examples of Use • Catalogs – UM loaded every record – Chicago links to public domain volumes owned in print – TROVE harvesting through OAI – OCLC loads records into OCLC • Link Resolves – UC created SFX target • Vendors – H.W. Wilson database links to public domain volumes – ProQuest full-text index via Summon Services (6) • Collaborative Development Environment – Active repository development • Support for Computational Research – Datasets • 120,000-volume set • Google-digitized public domain – Protocol-based access – Research Center How does work get done? • Collective work – e.g., working groups – Perform the work of the partnership – Now 40+ people across partner institutions • Distributed work – Driven by needs of institutions – able to leverage across the partnership – Projects, e.g. grant work, ingest specifications, page-turner, bibliographic data management • Leverage expertise across institutions Working Groups (1) • Operational focus – Appointed by Executive Director in coordination with Executive Committee – Current • Usability • User Support • Communications – Previous • Development Environment • Storage • Research Center Working Groups (2) • Planning or Exploratory focus – Appointed by Strategic Advisory Board – Recommendations reviewed by SAB and XCom; may call for subsequent implementation • • • • Collections Committee Surrogates Quality, Ingest, and Error rate Discovery How is work prioritized? • Initial functional objectives • Collective processes – Working groups and committees Governance Budget, Finances Decision-making Policy Enterprise Management Repository Administration Repository Administration Communication and Coordination with partner institutions Hardware configuration and maintenance Data management (content storage, backup, integrity checks, deletion) Project management Planning Web and application server configuration and maintenance Security Hardware selection and replacement Content and Metadata specifications Permissions Rights Management Bibliographic Data Management Copyright determination Entity description (record-level) Copyright review Object identification (item-level) Copyright information management (database) Data availability Collection Development Digital • Expansion beyond books and journals (born-digital, images and maps, audio) • Selection of content (for nonGoogle volume ingest and pilots projects) Print • Cloud Library (effect of digital on print) Rightsholder permissions Disaster Recovery Logging Processes for ensuring content integrity e-Commerce Print on Demand Content Ingest Content Access Quality Assurance User Services Transformation PageTurner Quality Review Usability Validation Collection Builder Content Certification User support (helpdesk) Large-scale Search Financial contributions of partners Research Center Bibliographic Catalog APIs HathiTrust Functional Framework Outreach Project website Monthly newsletter Papers and presentations Communication with potential partners Surveys, general inquiries Repository evaluation and audit (e.g., DRAMBORA, TRAC) Legal Risk management (use of materials) Partner agreements Advocacy Costs Costs • Base funding from partner institutions • Basic infrastructure costs • Commitments in 5-year periods How much does it cost? (1) Cost How much does it cost? (2) • $0.149/volume/year for Google-digitized • $0.489/volume/year for IA-digitized • $0.154/volume/year for all content • $3.40 per GB Cost Model 1. Based on contributed content 2. Based on overlap with print collections – Public Domain / In-copyright – Depends on Print Holdings Database • • • • Costs Lawful uses of materials Complete picture Volumes institutions own or have owned – OCLC number; Bib record ID; Condition; Holding – Status Shared Strategies/Benefits How Different from Google? • • • • • • Preservation Content Collective work Uses of materials Own trajectory Partnership – – – – Not just about digital content or repository Address challenges Fulfill mission Provide services for our communities A global change in the library environment 60% Academic print book collection already substantially duplicated in mass digitized book corpus 50% % of Titles in Local Collection June 2010 Median duplication: 31% 40% 30% 20% June 2009 Median duplication: 19% 10% 0% 0 20 40 60 80 Rank in 2008 ARL Investment Index 100 120 Digitized Books in Shared Repositories ~3.5M titles 3,500,000 3,000,000 ~75% of mass digitized corpus is ‘backed up’ in one or more shared print repositories ~2.5M Unique Titles 2,500,000 2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 0 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Mass digitized books in Hathi digital repository Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10 Apr-10 May-10 Jun-10 Mass digitized books in shared print repositories Shared Strategies • Copyright • Preservation – Digital and print • • • • Discovery / Use Bibliographic Indeterminacy Consolidate development talent Collective Attention to solving shared problems How to find out more • Website “About” section – http:/www.hathitrust.org/about • Twitter – http://twitter.com/hathitrust • Monthly newsletter – http://www.hathitrust.org/updates – http://www.hathitrust.org/updates_rss (RSS) • Contact us – feedback@issues.hathitrust.org – jjyork@umich.edu Thank you very much!