Indiana University, the University of Illinois, and the HathiTrust Digital Repository today announced the creation of the Hathi Trust Research Center (HTRC).
Leveraging data storage infrastructure at Indiana University and computational resources at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the HTRC will provision a secure computational and data environment for scholars to perform research using the HathiTrust Digital Repository. The center will break new ground in the areas of text mining and non-consumptive research, allowing scholars to fully utilize content of the HathiTrust Library while preventing intellectual property misuse within the confines of current U.S. copyright law.
“The HTRC partnership combines expertise and resources of two of the nation’s foremost research universities to build a first-of-its-kind center for advanced analysis of the HathiTrust corpus,” says John Wilkin, executive director of HathiTrust. “Prior to this collaboration, computational analysis over the vast HathiTrust collection has been difficult. HTRC promises to ease computational analysis of the texts and promote new algorithmic development and discovery.”
This will provide unparalleled access to the largest corpus of digital texts not in the hands of a commercial entity. It will be very interesting to see what scholars and researchers do with it over the coming years.
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