HathiTrust Research Center overview and tutorial

Workshop on the HathiTrust Research Center presented for THATCamp Gaineville in April 2014.

Transcript

1. HTRC Workshop 101 THATCamp Gainesville April 24, 2014
2. Outline • HathiTrust and HathiTrust Research Center overview • How to Use the HTRC Portal – Workset Builder – Algorithm Analysis • Opportunities to connect you with the HathiTrust Research Center
3. HathiTrust “Wow” Numbers • 11,135,776 total volumes • 5,801,121 book titles • 290,893 serial titles • 3,897,521,600 pages • 499 terabytes • 132 miles • 9,048 tons • Public Domain: 3,743,574 volumes(~34% of total) http://www.hathitrust.org
4. Content Distribution
5. Dates
6. Language Distribution The top 10 languages make up ~86% of all content
7. Board of Governors Executive Committee Executive Director HathiTrust Digital Library 90+ partners University of Illinois Indiana University HathiTrust Research Center University of Michigan Data Copy #1 Data Copy #2 Indiana University
8. HathiTrust Collection Builder
9. HTRC Portal
10. www.hathitrust.org/htrc
11. Log in to HTRC Portal
12. Create a Log In
13. How To Start a Workset
14. Log In Again to Workset Builder
15. Workset Builder
16. Why Worksets? • The result of a first-level, rough filter • Better scale for intensive analytics • Provides essential scope for certain analytics – Word frequency scope over Bacon’s essays • Some tools (are trained to) work best on a narrow, homogeneous work-set • Eliminate noise that would otherwise arise by asking questions across whole of HT
17. Workset Search
18. Select Items
19. Create Worksets
20. Analysis in the HTRC Portal
21. Choose Algorithm
22. Choose Collection(s) for Analysis
23. Run the Analysis…
24. Results!
25. View Results
26. Looking into the future • Non-consumptive research on copyrighted texts • Bookworm tool development: http://sandbox.htrc.illinois.edu/bookworm/ • Improvement of metadata through Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis (WCSA) study • Documentation and user guides forthcoming soon
27. Acknowledgements: HTRC Team • HTRC @ Illinois (GSLIS and the University Library): Stephen Downie, Tim Cole, Loretta Auvil, Sayan Bhattacharyya, Boris Capitanu, Colleen Fallaw, Katrina Fenlon, Harriett Green, Peter Organisciak, Megan Senseney, Craig Willis • Indiana University: led by Beth Plale
28. Get Involved! HTRC Announcements: htrc-announce-l @ list.indiana.edu HTRC User Group: htrc-usergroup-l @ list.indiana.edu
29. Questions? Harriett Green English and Digital Humanities Librarian University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign green19@illinois.edu