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Downie to speak at University of Oxford

Stephen Downie
J. Stephen Downie, Professor, Executive Associate Dean, Associate Dean for Research, and Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center

GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie is slated to speak at the University of Oxford on January 22 about the ongoing work of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). His talk, “Unlocking the Secrets of 3 Billion Pages: Introducing the HathiTrust Research Center,” will provide an overview of the HTRC’s mission and projects and will introduce scholars to ways they can make use of the center's growing corpus and set of resources. The presentation has been organized by the Oxford e-Research Centre and the Bodleian Digital Seminar Series.

The HTRC is a collaboration between the University of Illinois, Indiana University, and the HathiTrust, who work to offer its users access to published public domain works as well as future limited access to in-copyright works. By developing state-of-the-art tools and cyberinfrastructure, the HTRC hopes to resolve the technical challenges that occur within massive amounts of digital text, enabling access to the digital growing record of human knowledge. Downie serves as a co-director of the center.

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