HATHITRUST A Shared Digital Repository

Why Digitize? or

The Limits of Preservation

2014 TEI/DHCS Plenary SessionEvanston, IL

Mike FurloughExecutive Director, HathiTrust

Books from Different <angles>

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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-over-bookplate-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 MembersAllegheny CollegeArizona State UniversityBaylor UniversityBoston CollegeBoston UniversityBrandeis UniversityBrown UniversityCalifornia Digital LibraryCarnegie Mellon UniversityColby CollegeColumbia UniversityCornell UniversityDartmouth CollegeDuke UniversityEmory UniversityFlorida State UniversityGetty Research InstituteHarvard University LibraryIndiana UniversityIowa State UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityKansas State UniversityLafayette CollegeLibrary of CongressMassachusetts Institute of

TechnologyMcGill University`Michigan State UniversityMontana State UniversityMount Holyoke CollegeNew York Public LibraryNew York UniversityNorth Carolina Central

UniversityNorth Carolina State

UniversityNorthwestern University

The Ohio State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State

UniversityPrinceton UniversityPurdue UniversityRutgers UniversityStanford UniversitySyracuse UniversityTemple UniversityTexas A&M UniversityTexas TechTufts UniversityUniversidad Complutense

de MadridUniversity of AlabamaUniversity of AlbertaUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of California

BerkeleyDavisIrvineLos AngelesMercedRiversideSan DiegoSan FranciscoSanta BarbaraSanta Cruz

The University of ChicagoUniversity of ConnecticutUniversity of DelawareUniversity of FloridaUniversity of Houston

University of IllinoisUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoThe University of IowaUniversity of KansasUniversity of MaineUniversity of MarylandUniversity of Massachusetts,

AmherstUniversity of MiamiUniversity of MichiganUniversity of MinnesotaUniversity of MissouriUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnUniversity of New MexicoThe University of North

Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of Notre DameUniversity of OklahomaUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PittsburghUniversity of QueenslandUniversity of Tennessee, KnoxvilleUniversity of TexasUniversity of UtahUniversity of VermontUniversity of VirginiaUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonUtah State UniversityVanderbilt UniversityVirginia TechWake Forest UniversityWashington UniversityYale University Library

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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

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 20140

2,000,000

4,000,000

6,000,000

8,000,000

10,000,000

12,000,000

14,000,000

2,477,871

5,221,092

7,836,698

9,966,57210,599,355 10,878,121

12,104,793

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Language Distribution (1)

The top 10 languages make up ~87% of all content

English; 49%

German; 9%

French; 7%

Spanish; 5%

Chinese; 4%

Russian; 4%Japanese; 3%

Italian; 3%Arabic; 2%

Latin; 1%

Remaining Languages;

13%

* As of February 17, 2014

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Language Distribution (2)

Portuguese; 7%Polish; 7%

Dutch; 5%

Hebrew; 5%

Hindi; 5%

Indonesian; 4%

Korean; 4%Swedish; 4%

Thai; 3%Urdu; 3%Turkish; 3%Danish; 3%

Czech; 3%Croatian; 3%

Persian; 2%Tamil; 2%

Hungarian; 2%

Bengali; 2%Norwegian; 2%

Sanskrit; 2%

Greek,-Modern-(1453--); 2%

Vietnamese; 1%

Ukrainian; 1%

Serbian; 1%

Bulgarian; 1%

Greek,-Ancient-(to-1453); 1%

Armenian; 1%

Romanian; 1%

Marathi; 1%Panjabi; 1%

Telugu; 1%

Catalan; 1%

Malay; 1%

Multiple-languages; 1%

Malayalam; 1% Finnish; 1% Slovak; 1% Slovenian; 1%Turkish,-Ottoman; 1%Yiddish; 1% Nepali; 0%

The next 40 languages make up ~12% of total

* As of February 17, 2014

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Dates

* As of February 17, 2014

2000-200910%

1990-199914%

1980-198914%

1970-197913%

1960-196911%

1950-19596%

1940-19494%

1930-19394%

1920-19294%

1910-19194%

1900-19094%

1850-189910% 1800-1849

3%

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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 – 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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– Large-scale Search– Perspectives from HathiTrust

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Thank you!

furlough@hathitrust.org@MikeFurlough