HATHITRUST A Shared Digital Repository

More, Better, Together: HathiTrust Accomplishments and Aspirations

The Researcher of TomorrowUniversidad Complutense de Madrid

December 4, 2012Jeremy York, Project Librarian, HathiTrust

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PartnershipArizona State UniversityBaylor UniversityBoston CollegeBoston UniversityBrandeis UniversityCalifornia Digital LibraryCarnegie Mellon UniversityColumbia UniversityCornell UniversityDartmouth CollegeDuke UniversityEmory UniversityFlorida State UniversityGetty Research InstituteHarvard University LibraryIndiana UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityKansas State UniversityLafayette CollegeLibrary of CongressMassachusetts Institute of

TechnologyMcGill University`Michigan State UniversityNew York Public LibraryNew York UniversityNorth Carolina Central

University

North Carolina StateUniversity

Northwestern UniversityThe Ohio State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State

UniversityPrinceton UniversityPurdue UniversityStanford UniversitySyracuse UniversityTexas A&M UniversityUniversidad Complutense

de MadridUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of California

BerkeleyDavisIrvineLos AngelesMercedRiversideSan DiegoSan FranciscoSanta BarbaraSanta Cruz

The University of ChicagoUniversity of Connecticut

University of DelawareUniversity of FloridaUniversity of IllinoisUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoThe University of IowaUniversity of MarylandUniversity of MiamiUniversity of MichiganUniversity of MinnesotaUniversity of MissouriUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnThe University of North

Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of Notre DameUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PittsburghUniversity of UtahUniversity of VermontUniversity of VirginiaUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonUtah State UniversityVirginia TechWashington UniversityYale University Library

Digital Repository

• Launched 2008• Initial focus on digitized book and journal

content– 10.6 million total volumes – 5.5 million book titles– 275,000 serial titles– 3.2 million public domain (~31%)

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

Universal Library

Common Goal

Single Entity, Many Partners

HathiTrust

Collections and Collaboration

• Comprehensive collection- Preservation…with Access

• Shared strategies– Copyright– Collection management, development– Preservation– Discovery / Use– Bibliographic Indeterminacy– Efficient user services

• Public Good

More

Content Sources

Michigan45%

California33%

Wisconsin5%

Cornell4%

NYPL3%

Princeton3%

Indiana2%

Columbia1%

Harvard1%

LC1%

Madrid1%

Minnesota1%

English48%

German9%

French7%

Spanish5%

Chinese4%

Russian4%

Japanese3%

Italian2%

Arabic2%

Latin1%

Remaining Languages

14%

Language Distribution (1)

The top 10 languages make up ~86% of all content

Undetermined7%

Polish7%

Portuguese7%

Dutch5%

Hebrew5%

Hindi5%

Indonesian4%

Korean4%Swedish

3%

Urdu3%

Turkish3%

Thai3%Danish

3%

Czech3%

Unknown3%

Croatian2%

Persian2%

Tamil2%

Bengali2%

Music2%

Hungarian2%

Norwegian2%

Sanskrit2%

Vietnamese1%

Ukrainian1%

Greek1%

Bulgarian1%Serbian

1%Armenian

1%Romanian

1%Marathi

1%

Ancient-Greek1% Panjabi

1%

Telugu1%Malay

1%

Catalan1%

Malayalam1%

Multiple1%

Finnish1%

Slovak1%

Language Distribution (2)

The next 40 languages make up ~13% of total

Dates

Oct-08 Mar-09 Oct-09 Mar-10 Oct-10 Mar-11 Oct-11 Mar-12 Jul-120%

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YaleUtah StateUNC-Chapel HillPurduePenn StateNorthwesternNCSUIllinoisDukeChicagoVirginiaMinnesotaMadridLoCHarvardColumbiaIndianaPrincetonNYPLCornellWisconsinCaliforniaMichigan

Preservation...

TDR

with Access

1. Rights Determination

• Automated • Manual

Bibliographic

Manual

2. Sensitivity to diverse rights regimes

• Public domain worldwide• Public domain in the United States• Public domain in ....

Opened Reviewed Percent

CRMS-US 178,872 338,463 53%

CRMS-World 15,181 30,965 49%

Total 194,053 369,428 53%

3. Permissions

• Open Access• Preservation• Born-digital

Copyright Distribution

In-copyright or unde-termined

69%

Public Domain (worldwide)

15%

U.S. Federal Government Documents (worldwide)

4%

Public Domain(US)11%

Open Access.1%

Creative Commons .04%

4. Lawful access

• U.S.– Print disabilities– Damaged or lost

• Extensible

Relation to print, pricing model

Pay per GBPay by overlap

Full view = sharedLimited = if “held”

Holdings Database

• Single-part monographs– OCLC #; Local system ID; Holding Status; Condition

• Multi-part monographs– Include enumeration and chronology

• Serials– OCLC #; Local system ID; ISSN

More

• Growing the collection• Expanding rights review• Expanding access• Partner-wide and local strategies

Better

Leveraging expertise

• Preservation• Access• Relationships

1. Preservation

• Difficult questions• Collective experience• Shared resources

2. Access

• Access– Full-text search– Collections– APIs– Datasets

3. Relationships

• Relationships– Bibliographic records– Bib records and objects– Digital objects– Digital and print

• Strategies– Metadata management– Targeted efforts

Better

• Leveraging expertise and resources for– Preservation– Access– Relationships

Together

e-Commerce

Print on Demand

Governance

Budget, Finances

Decision-making

Policy

Planning

Financial contributions of partners

HathiTrust Functional Framework

Together

• Content• Rights

• Determinations• Permissions• Lawful access

• Collaborate globally, plan locally

• Shared expertise /resources for:

• Preservation• Access• Relationships

More Better

?

Thank you!