CIRSS Seminar: J. Stephen Downie
Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie will give the talk "Extracted Features: Opening Access to HathiTrust and Beyond."
Abstract: The HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) contains nearly 17 million volumes (approximately 6 billion pages). Unfortunately, around 11 million HTDL volumes are under copyright restrictions and cannot be shared directly with users. To overcome this problem, the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is creating a set of “non-consumptive research” services to make these closed materials more open and thus useful to scholars. This talk introduces such non-consumptive services as "Data Capsules," "Extracted Features," and the "Bookworm + HathiTrust" tool. It will pay particular attention to the opportunities and challenges surrounding the creation, use and sharing of Extracted Features. Each HTRC service is designed to open new points of access to otherwise closed data, while still respecting all copyright limitations. Examples of real-world Digital Humanities research projects and services that have been using the HTRC Extracted Features data will highlighted.
Based on a series of invited talks given at Peking University (China), the University of Tsukuba (Japan), the University of Wuppertal (Germany), and the University of Göttingen (Germany).
This event is sponsored by CIRSS