HATHI TRUST RESEARCH CENTER
HathiTrust Research Center: An Update for
the HT Members Meeting
10.10.14
J. Stephen Downie – Co-Director HTRC
GSLIS
University of Illinois
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Many thanks …
HTRC IU Team
• Beth Plale (PI)
• Robert H. McDonald
• Miao Chen
• Guangchen Ruan
• Zong Peng
• Milinda Pathirage
• Samitha Liyanage
• Leena Unnikrishnan
• Nicholae Cline
HTRC UIUC Team
• J. Stephen Downie (PI)
• Beth Namachchivaya
• Megan Senseney
• Sayan Bhattacharyya
• Colleen Fallaw
• Loretta Auvil
• Boris Capitanu
• Harriet Green
• Sara Shreeves
Mission of the HT Research Center
• Research arm of HathiTrust
• Established: July, 2011
• Collaborative center: Indiana University & University
of Illinois
• Mission: Enable researchers world-wide to accomplish
tera-scale text data-mining and analysis
– Develop cyberinfrastructure to enable HPC access to the
HathiTrust Digital Library
– Develop cutting-edge software tools for processing,
analyzing text
– Develop translational tools and data that can be used to
enhance HathiTrust Digital Library services to users
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HTRC Governance
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Reports to the HathiTrust Board of Governors
HTRC Executive Committee
– J. Stephen Downie (Co-director), Professor and Associate
Dean for Research, University of Illinois GSLIS
– Beth Plale (Co-director and Chair), Director Data To Insight
Center and professor in the School of Informatics and
Computing at Indiana University
– Robert H. McDonald, Associate Dean of Libraries/Deputy
Director Data to Insight Center at Indiana University
– Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, Associate University Librarian
for Information Technology Planning & Policy at the
University of Illinois
– John Unsworth, Vice Provost for Library & Technology
Services and Chief Information Officer at Brandeis University
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Goals for HTRC
• Provide a persistent and sustainable structure to
enable original and cutting edge research.
– Leverage data storage and computational infrastructure at Indiana
& Illinois
– Stimulate community development of new functionality and tools
– Use tools to enable discoveries that would not be possible
without the HTRC
• Enable scholars to fully utilize content of HathiTrust
Library while preventing intellectual property misuse
within U.S. copyright law.
– Provision secure computational and data environment for scholars
to perform research using HathiTrust Digital Library.
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HTRC Timeline
• Phase I: Development 01 Jul 2011 – 31 Mar 2013
– HTRC software and services release v1.0
https://github.com/htrc
• Phase II: Outreach, 01 Apr 2013 – 30 June 2014
– 2nd HTRC UnCamp Sep ’13
• Phase III: Operations, 01 July 2014 – June 2018
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IU Systems
Administrator
HTRC Execu ve
Management
HathiTrust
HTRC Advisory Board
(.25 FTE)
IU Managing Director
UI Managing Director
(.25 FTE)
(.11 FTE)
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Core Development
Senior Library Personnel
Sr. So ware Architect
(4 supervisors at .05 FTE)
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Senior Project
Coordinator
Research Programmer
(.25 FTE)
(.5 FTE)
Support (coordinated by
M. Chen)
Advanced Research
(2 years at 1.0 FTE)
CS PhD Students
Scholarly Commons
Research Programmer
Dig Humani es Specialist
(.5 FTE)
(1.0 FTE)
Informa cs Developers
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Liaison
LIS PhD Students
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CLIR Postdoctoral
Research Associate
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Proposed for funding by HathTrust
Execu ve Assistant
Library Research
Programmer
UI Systems
Administrator
Asst Dir Outreach &
Educa on (M. Chen)
Digital Research
Librarian support
(.5 FTE)
(.5 FTE)
(.5 FTE)
(1 year at .25 FTE)
(.2 FTE)
IU Systems
Administrator
Scholars Commons
Support
(.25 FTE)
(.5 FTE)
Funded by University of Illinois
Proposed for joint funding by HathiTrust
Proposed for joint funding by HathiTrust
User Interface Specialist
LIS MS Students
(2 years at 1.0 FTE)
Informa cs Developers
(2 developers for 2 years
at .15 FTE)
Funded by Indiana University
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Area
Proposed for funding by HathTrust
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CLIR Postdoctoral
Research Associate
(.5 FTE)
(2 years at 1.0 FTE)
Controls releases
Implements new features
System auditing, incident response
Manages bug queue
Oversees translational research
process
• At 2 FTE + UI specialist + minor
roles
• HTRC System Managers belong to
this group
LIS PhD Students
Library Research
Programmer
UI Systems
Administrator
Asst Dir Outreach &
Educa on (M. Chen)
Digital Research
Librarian support
(.5 FTE)
(.5 FTE)
(1 year at .25 FTE)
(.2 FTE)
IU Systems
Administrator
(.25 FTE)
User Interface Specialist
(2 years at 1.0 FTE)
Informa cs Developers
(2 developers for 2 years
at .15 FTE)
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Scholars Commons
Support
(.5 FTE)
LIS MS Students
Key:
Area
Proposed for funding by HathTrust
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Advanced Collaborative Support
Advanced Collabora ve
Support (coordinated by
M. Chen)
• Pairs HT institution researchers with
expert staff for an extended period during
which they work together to address a
particularly vexing issue (e.g., efficient
parallelization and optimization of a
machine learning algorithm)
• 20 hours/week available: example: at any
one time 4 active projects, each receiving
5 hours a week for up to 2 months.
• Resourced at 1.25 FTE
• Staffed by HTRC Staff who have signed the
staff agreement
Scholarly Commons
Research Programmer
Dig Humani es Specialist
(.5 FTE)
(1.0 FTE)
Computa onal Research
Liaison
(.5 FTE)
Asst Dir Outreach &
Educa on (M. Chen)
(1 year at .25 FTE)
CLIR Postdoctoral
Research Associate
(2 years at 1.0 FTE)
Digital Research
Librarian support
(.2 FTE)
Scholars Commons
Support
(.5 FTE)
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• Grant funded
• May include people designated
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• Activity that is not immediately
intended for production
availability
• Activity from this group has to
pass translational evaluation to
be incorporated as production
service
Advanced Collabora ve
Support (coordinated by
M. Chen)
Scholarly Commons
Research Programmer
Dig Humani es Specialist
(.5 FTE)
(1.0 FTE)
Computa onal Research
Liaison
CLIR Postdoctoral
Research Associate
(.5 FTE)
(2 years at 1.0 FTE)
UI Systems
Administrator
Asst Dir Outreach &
Educa on (M. Chen)
Digital Research
Librarian support
(.5 FTE)
(1 year at .25 FTE)
(.2 FTE)
CS PhD Students
LIS PhD Students
Scholars Commons
Support
FTE)
(.5 FTE)
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(.25 FTE)
(.11 FTE)
Scholarly Commons
User Support Service
Administra ve Support
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Core Development
Advanced Collabora ve
Support (coordinated by
M. Chen)
Advanced Research
Develop training materials
Educational workshops
Tool and workset creation
Collaborate with librarians and DH
centers at HT institutions
• Assist researchers in HTRC text data
mining research projects
• Led out of University of Illinois
Library; smaller group at IU
• Resourced at 2.7 FTE.
Senior Library Personnel
Sr. So ware Architect
(4 supervisors at .05 FTE)
(1.0 FTE)
Senior Project
Coordinator
Research Programmer
(.25 FTE)
(.5 FTE)
Execu ve Assistant
Library Research
Programmer
(.5 FTE)
(.5 FTE)
Research Programmer
Dig Humani es Specialist
(.5 FTE)
(1.0 FTE)
Computa onal Research
Liaison
CLIR Postdoctoral
Research Associate
(.5 FTE)
(2 years at 1.0 FTE)
UI Systems
Administrator
Asst Dir Outreach &
Educa on (M. Chen)
Digital Research
Librarian support
(.5 FTE)
(1 year at .25 FTE)
(.2 FTE)
CS PhD Students
LIS PhD Students
IU Systems
Administrator
Scholars Commons
Support
(.25 FTE)
(.5 FTE)
User Interface Specialist
(2 years at 1.0 FTE)
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Scholarly Commons
Informa cs Developers
(2 developers for 2 years
at .15 FTE)
LIS MS Students
Key:
Area
Proposed for funding by HathTrust
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Growing Use
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User-Generated Analytics
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Current Grants
• Data Capsule
– Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis
– Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Exploring the Billions and Billions of Words in
the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm
– National Endowment for the Humanities
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In the Grant Pipeline
• Secure Data Capsules for Computational
Linguistics
– Unsworth (Brandeis)
• Repository Services for Accessible Course
Content
– Wood (Tufts)
• Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries
Empowering Users to Mine the HathiTrust
Digital Library Resources
– Green (Illinois)
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HTRC Future Work
• Copyrighted content in progress
• Advanced Collaborative Support
– The award model
– Award content is HTRC ACS staff time
– Collaborate with scholars on addressing their research needs
related to HTRC
– E.g. prototyping, running text analysis
– Advocate open source; encourage extending the work to a grant
submission
– Call for proposals is Mid-October 2014
• Scholars Commons
– Interaction with scholars to help using HTRC tools and services
– An interface to interact with HTRC users via the channel of
scholars commons
– Series of workshops at IU and UIUC
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Future Events
• DHCS 2014
– Oct 22, 2014 at Evanston, IL
• SuperComputing 2014
– Nov 17-19, 2014 at Indiana University Booth
• HTRC UnCamp 2015
– March 30-31, 2015 at Ann Arbor, MI
• DH 2015
– June 29-3 July, 2015 at Sydney, Australia
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For details: http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc/faq
Portal: https://htrc2.pti.indiana.edu/HTRC-UI-Portal2/
Sandbox: http://sandbox.htrc.Illinois.edu
General contact info
– J. Stephen Downie, Co-Director HTRC, jdownie@Illinois.edu
– Beth Plale, Co-Director HTRC, plale@indiana.edu
• Requests for capability, interest
– Miao Chen, Asst. Director for Outreach HTRC
miaochen@indiana.edu
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