The Janaurary 2025 Issue of the #HathiTrust Newsletter is Now Available Online https://www.hathitrust.org/newsletter-post/january-2025/ #libraries
#HathiTrust
I can only feature 60 or so works in my #PublicDomainDayCountdown to 2025, but #HathiTrust will open more than 76,000 volumes to US readers in January, and over 60,000 volumes to readers outside the US. Find out more about what's in store here: https://www.hathitrust.org/press-post/2025-public-domain-titles/. (Their post also includes a link to my blog.)
Just learned the #Constellate platform put together by Ithaka and #JSTOR for #TextMining is being sunsetted next year.
Apparently, #HathiTrust will also discontinue support of the HathiTrust Research Centre (its text mining platform).
I hope some of the data download features Constellate allowed (even for non-members) will continue... they're useful and important!
HathiTrust、著作権で保護された資料への合法的なアクセス手段の拡大に向けたプロジェクトを開始
https://current.ndl.go.jp/car/229545
#current_ndl_go_car #カレントアウェアネス_R #米国 #大学図書館 #研究図書館 #デジタル化 #著作権 #電子図書館 #電子情報 #HathiTrust
Last but not least in our session: Wenyi Shang (presenting), Yuqi Chen, Ryan Dubnicek, Ryan Cordell and Stephen J Downie: "Interplays Between #Materiality and Content in #Book History: Evidence from 16th–19th Century #Chinese and #English Books", at #DH2024. #BookHistory
They used #HathiTrust Extracted Features, which is very cool of course. Book size and print size interact in interesting, and different, ways in Chinese and English.
After way too long, I finally used a GPT to track down the case citation for Houston Texas Central Railroad Company v. W.A. East, including an online copy of the case itself.
TL;DR: Hathi Trust for once actually comes through:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103152245&seq=301
Texas Supreme Court cases are recorded in West's South Western Reporter. WestLaw is famously obsessive with copyright, but all cases prior to 1928 are now in the public domain. Yay, P.D.
There's an online archive of South Western Reporter at Hathi Trust:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100333420
(Via the Online Books Page at University of Pennsylvania: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=swreporter)
The full citation for the case, which gives the volume and page number, is:
H. T.C. Ry. Co. v. East
Full title: HOUSTON TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. W.A. EAST
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Date published: Jun 13, 1904
Citations
81 S.W. 279 (Tex. 1904)
81 S.W. 279
So we want South West Reporter, volume 81, page 279.
Which is here:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103152245&seq=301
(Hathi infuriatingly doesn't permit full-volume downloads, but you can download PDFs one page at a time...)
The process by which I'd done this seems interesting (IMO):
I'd turned this up using a GPT (FastGPT from Kagi), asking it what the early-20th century Texas case concerning rule of capture was, whether that case was online anywhere (reply: not really, though there are several discussions of it), and then where Texas State Supreme Court rulings were published. OCLC failed to give reasonable references, the Internet Archive doesn't seem to carry these, but the UPenn Online Books Page (Homepage: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/, a hugely useful tool I'm deciding) pointed me to Hathi.
On GPT: the ability to go through a series of questions about a topic, rather than just doing a keyword search, really is transformational. I'd been an early user of Google (1998/9), and online library catalogues for over a decade before that. Being able to inquire about topics and narrow down where to find things is tremendously useful, and I'm still wrapping my head around this as a tool.
cc: @pluralistic
#RuleOfCapture #HathiTrust #Texas #TexasSupremeCourt #FastGPT #GPT #Kagi #UPenn #OnlineBooksPage
I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!
With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).
More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).
Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh
HathiTrust、新戦略ビジョンを公開
https://current.ndl.go.jp/car/217817
The HathiTrust Research Center’s “Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction” (TORCHLITE) project is pleased to announce a call for applications to participate in our TORCHLITE Hackathon, taking place May 21-23, 2024 at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois.
Registration by March 1st: https://forms.gle/XgVj4nUsBWYnQmqEA
Contact: htrc-help@hathitrust.org
【イベント】DH国際シンポジウム「ビッグデータ時代の文学研究と研究基盤」（3/15・東京）
https://current.ndl.go.jp/car/209791
#current_ndl_go_car #カレントアウェアネス_R #北米 #日本 #イベント #デジタルアーカイブ #デジタル人文学 #ビッグデータ #HathiTrust
#HathiTrust remains a useful database to search obscure old documents, and its interface improved a lot in the last few years, but it's still so frustrating that search results only tell you which book or document the word appears in but doesn't actually bring you to that spot. When you open the book you have to click through the sidebar menu to the place where you can do a second search for the term.😓 📚
Otro web recopilatoria de libros que también os puede interesar es la HathiTrust Digital Library:
Hathi Trust als Datenquelle?! Finden Sie historische und moderne Titel im Katalog des FID BBI, für Sie von uns auf Ihr Forschungsgebiet gefiltert und regelmäßig auf den neuesten Stand gebracht: https://katalog.fid-bbi.de/Search/Results?filter%5B%5D=mega_collection%3A%22Hathi+Trust%22 #fidbbi #DigitalLibrary #HathiTrust #FIDBBIAdvent23
Re-upping this piece from many years ago on my encounter with the American Railroad Journal from printed page to microfilm to #HathiTrust:
https://aaronwmarrs.com/blog/2014/02/dk-minor-in-digital-age.html
The #HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) requests proposals for its Advanced Collaborative Support Program, a scholarly service offering collaboration between researchers and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus.
Deadline: 27.11.2023
Project Support Period: 15.12.2023 – 31.07.2024
For more details on the program and how to apply, please check:
https://myumi.ch/kx25n
The extended Internet downtime at Michigan, which appears to be a lockdown after a security intrusion, appear to me to highlight some issues with the Handle system, the underlying technology for DOIs, identifiers in repository systems like Dspace, and volume links in #Hathitrust.
The Handle protocol is pre-REST, and typically uses its own ports (usually 2641 or 8000). If you're locking down a network, it'll probably be a while before you get to start unblocking specialty ports like those. Plus…
(Looks like #HathiTrust knows about the issue: https://www.hathitrust.org/press-post/8-28-service-interruption/ I hope to see updates there; if they have an account in the Fediverse I'll also happily follow it. They also apparently posted to Twitter/X about it, but since that site no longer lets you see an account's posts unless you're signed in or have a direct link to a specific post, it's quite a bit less useful than it previously was for status reports.)
Some #HathiTrust services aren't working for me at the moment. (In particular, links from record pages to volume scans, which rely on Handle technology, as well as the "Report problems" form submission.) I'm not sure if other people are experiencing those problems, but I've emailed their tech support, and hope the issues will be resolved soon.
Online Literatur lesen, teils entleihen wie bei einer Bibliothek und eine Volltextsuche - das alles bietet #HathiTrust. Und nun haben sie dort 18 Millionen Titel: https://blog.digithek.ch/hathitrust-erreicht-18-mio-titel/
Chapeau!
We're celebrating the 52nd birthday of the #ebook today. This summer's also a milestone anniversary for my own ebook-related site, as well a milestone for some other ebook projects. In a new post on Everybody's Libraries, I thank some of the many people who have been sharing books, creative works, and information about them on the internet for the past many years: https://everybodyslibraries.com/2023/07/04/my-thanks-to-all-sharing-books-online/
#Bookstodon #ProjectGutenberg #DOAB #DistributedProofreaders #HathiTrust #InternetArchive #PennLibraries
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