Fwd: [DIGLIB] HathiTrust Update on March 2013 Activities

[Tom Cramer]

Hathi Trust is building a text mining portal based in part on Blacklight...

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From: Jeremy York <jjy...@umich.edu>

Date: April 29, 2013 1:40:48 PM PDT

To: dig...@infoserv.inist.fr

Subject: [DIGLIB] HathiTrust Update on March 2013 Activities

HathiTrust's update on March activities is now available at <http://www.hathitrust.org/updates_march2013>. Highlights from this month’s update and other news headings are copied below.

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HTRC Software Release
The HathiTrust Research Center reached a development benchmark in its release of production infrastructure to support data mining and textual analysis of volumes in HathiTrust.

The infrastructure includes an entrance portal, search and collection-building tools (using Blacklight <http://projectblacklight.org/>), and access to SEASR analysis algorithms that can be run against the HathiTrust public domain corpus (more than 3 million volumes).  In addition to the production services, the HTRC offers a development “sandbox”.  The sandbox runs against non-Google scanned content (about 260,000 volumes) and provides a test-bed for interested researchers to experiment with writing their own algorithms for use in the HTRC infrastructure.

The production release concludes the first six month period in Phase 2 of development of the HTRC (Oct 2012-March 2014). Phase 2 will also include the development of the HTRC-Sloan-Cloud – infrastructure that will include additional mechanisms to allow secure, non-consumptive access to the entire HathiTrust corpus – and systems to accommodate the full 10.6 million HathiTrust volumes in the HTRC. For more information on HTRC services and testing of the production infrastructure, please join our HTRC-usergroup-l listserv athttps://list.indiana.edu/sympa/subscribe/htrc-usergroup-l.

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