#hathitrust — Public Fediverse posts

HathiTrust: Activating the Collection: HathiTrust’s Strategy for Stewardship and Growth. “At the 2025 Member Meeting in Brief last fall, and briefly at the 2025 Community Week session ‘Building the HathiTrust Collection Through Special Collections,’ we announced a new HathiTrust Collection Strategy. The completion of this strategy was a long time coming, guided by past work and future […]

HathiTrust: Activating the Collection: HathiTrust’s Strategy for Stewardship and Growth. “At the 2025 Member Meeting in Brief last fall, and briefly at the 2025 Community Week session ‘Building the HathiTrust Collection Through Special Collections,’ we announced a new HathiTrust Collection Strategy. The completion of this strategy was a long time coming, guided by past work and future […]

HathiTrust: Activating the Collection: HathiTrust’s Strategy for Stewardship and Growth. “At the 2025 Member Meeting in Brief last fall, and briefly at the 2025 Community Week session ‘Building the HathiTrust Collection Through Special Collections,’ we announced a new HathiTrust Collection Strategy. The completion of this strategy was a long time coming, guided by past work and future […]

HathiTrust: Activating the Collection: HathiTrust’s Strategy for Stewardship and Growth. “At the 2025 Member Meeting in Brief last fall, and briefly at the 2025 Community Week session ‘Building the HathiTrust Collection Through Special Collections,’ we announced a new HathiTrust Collection Strategy. The completion of this strategy was a long time coming, guided by past work and future […]

HathiTrust: Activating the Collection: HathiTrust’s Strategy for Stewardship and Growth. “At the 2025 Member Meeting in Brief last fall, and briefly at the 2025 Community Week session ‘Building the HathiTrust Collection Through Special Collections,’ we announced a new HathiTrust Collection Strategy. The completion of this strategy was a long time coming, guided by past work and future […]

1/ As far as I can tell, there are no #AI tools to help determine whether an arbitrary #book is in the #PublicDomain for an arbitrary country.

I respect the best of the non-AI tools and services already doing parts of this complex job, such as the #HathiTrust Rights Determination, #Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and the #PublicDomainReview Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online.

But there seems to be a niche for testing to see whether AI tools might do this job better and faster.

#Copyright #ScholComm

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1/ As far as I can tell, there are no #AI tools to help determine whether an arbitrary #book is in the #PublicDomain for an arbitrary country.

I respect the best of the non-AI tools and services already doing parts of this complex job, such as the #HathiTrust Rights Determination, #Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and the #PublicDomainReview Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online.

But there seems to be a niche for testing to see whether AI tools might do this job better and faster.

#Copyright #ScholComm

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1/ As far as I can tell, there are no #AI tools to help determine whether an arbitrary #book is in the #PublicDomain for an arbitrary country.

I respect the best of the non-AI tools and services already doing parts of this complex job, such as the #HathiTrust Rights Determination, #Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and the #PublicDomainReview Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online.

But there seems to be a niche for testing to see whether AI tools might do this job better and faster.

#Copyright #ScholComm

🧵

1/ As far as I can tell, there are no #AI tools to help determine whether an arbitrary #book is in the #PublicDomain for an arbitrary country.

I respect the best of the non-AI tools and services already doing parts of this complex job, such as the #HathiTrust Rights Determination, #Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and the #PublicDomainReview Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online.

But there seems to be a niche for testing to see whether AI tools might do this job better and faster.

#Copyright #ScholComm

🧵

1/ As far as I can tell, there are no #AI tools to help determine whether an arbitrary #book is in the #PublicDomain for an arbitrary country.

I respect the best of the non-AI tools and services already doing parts of this complex job, such as the #HathiTrust Rights Determination, #Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and the #PublicDomainReview Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online.

But there seems to be a niche for testing to see whether AI tools might do this job better and faster.

#Copyright #ScholComm

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Is #HathiTrust down? I get #503 errors or nothing at all …

@hoogla_kalfat @benjamingeer ما عندي معلومات خصوصية عن هذه المجلة. فصور مجلات بنفس الاسم موجدة ب #HathiTrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000066688) وب @internetarchive (https://archive.org/details/184900)

Over at Bluesky #HathiTrust responded:

> This may or not be helpful, but did you know you can add ".xml" to a catalog record? for example https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000271011.xml

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.brid.gy/#bridgy-fed-dm-?-https://digitalcourage.social/users/tillgrallert-2025-12-10T19:30:02.313016+00:00

Hathi does indeed expose #MarcXML directly. This is great news! However, for this particular use case, where I am having a list of OCLC numbers and try to find them in HathiTrust, I still need to parse MarcXML from the encapsulating JSON served via https://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/full/oclc/{ID}.json

#MarcXML encapsulated as a string in #JSON is a pain to work with as I am finding out trying to query #HathiTrust APIs for digitised items with a list of #OCLC numbers obtained via #SPARQL from #Wikidata.

Things I wish for:

1. direct access to the MARCXML from HathiTrust
2. a publicly accessible API for #Worldcat / OCLC to find holdings

#DigitalHumanities #libraries #metadata #bibliography

HathiTrust: 19 Million Items: Cornell Contributions Expand the Collection. “Preserving and providing access to HathiTrust’s shared digital collection centers our work, enabling scholars and curious minds to explore the record of human knowledge that we steward. Recently, Cornell University (HathiTrust member since 2010) contributed the collection’s 19-millionth item, an epic milestone since […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/28/19-million-items-cornell-contributions-expand-the-collection-hathitrust/

After several months of #discovery and development, the #HathiTrust #ResourceSharing project has launched a pilot with nine participating member #libraries.

https://www.hathitrust.org/press-post/hathitrust-resource-sharing-pilot-now-underway/

#ILL #Digitization #AcademicLibraries

After several months of #discovery and development, the #HathiTrust #ResourceSharing project has launched a pilot with nine participating member #libraries.

https://www.hathitrust.org/press-post/hathitrust-resource-sharing-pilot-now-underway/

#ILL #Digitization #AcademicLibraries

Do I know someone with decent US HathiTrust access?...

#research #HathiTrust

The San Antonio Public #Library recently reported the return of one of its books after 82 years.: https://www.mysapl.org/Events-News/News-Media-Center/News/ArtMID/17281/ArticleID/28899/Library-Book-Returned-Nearly-82-Years-After-Due-Date The book, _Your Child, His Family and Friends_ by Frances Bruce Strain, is now in the public domain in the United States, since copyrights were not renewed for either the book or the Parents magazine issues and articles where some of the material in it first appeared. #HathiTrust has a copy open that people in the US can read online: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000102131053

Ah, the #HathiTrust #Digital #Library, where the revolutionary concept of "books online" 😂 hinges on the ancient art of toggling #JavaScript and cookies! 🍪 Just what every #bibliophile dreams of—a thrilling adventure in browser settings! 🙄📚
https://www.hathitrust.org/ #books #online #cookies #HackerNews #ngated

HathiTrust Digital Library – books online

https://www.hathitrust.org/

#HackerNews #HathiTrust #Digital #Library #Online #Books #Literature #Access #DigitalLibrary

The Janaurary 2025 Issue of the #HathiTrust Newsletter is Now Available Online https://www.hathitrust.org/newsletter-post/january-2025/ #libraries

I can only feature 60 or so works in my #PublicDomainDayCountdown to 2025, but #HathiTrust will open more than 76,000 volumes to US readers in January, and over 60,000 volumes to readers outside the US. Find out more about what's in store here: https://www.hathitrust.org/press-post/2025-public-domain-titles/. (Their post also includes a link to my blog.)

Just learned the #Constellate platform put together by Ithaka and #JSTOR for #TextMining is being sunsetted next year.

Apparently, #HathiTrust will also discontinue support of the HathiTrust Research Centre (its text mining platform).

I hope some of the data download features Constellate allowed (even for non-members) will continue... they're useful and important!

#DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities #Libraries

Last but not least in our session: Wenyi Shang (presenting), Yuqi Chen, Ryan Dubnicek, Ryan Cordell and Stephen J Downie: "Interplays Between #Materiality and Content in #Book History: Evidence from 16th–19th Century #Chinese and #English Books", at #DH2024. #BookHistory

They used #HathiTrust Extracted Features, which is very cool of course. Book size and print size interact in interesting, and different, ways in Chinese and English.

After way too long, I finally used a GPT to track down the case citation for Houston Texas Central Railroad Company v. W.A. East, including an online copy of the case itself.

TL;DR: Hathi Trust for once actually comes through:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103152245&seq=301

Texas Supreme Court cases are recorded in West's South Western Reporter. WestLaw is famously obsessive with copyright, but all cases prior to 1928 are now in the public domain. Yay, P.D.

There's an online archive of South Western Reporter at Hathi Trust:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100333420

(Via the Online Books Page at University of Pennsylvania: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=swreporter)

The full citation for the case, which gives the volume and page number, is:

H. T.C. Ry. Co. v. East

Full title:  HOUSTON TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. W.A. EAST

Court:  Supreme Court of Texas

Date published: Jun 13, 1904
Citations
81 S.W. 279 (Tex. 1904)
81 S.W. 279

So we want South West Reporter, volume 81, page 279.

Which is here:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103152245&seq=301

(Hathi infuriatingly doesn't permit full-volume downloads, but you can download PDFs one page at a time...)

The process by which I'd done this seems interesting (IMO):

I'd turned this up using a GPT (FastGPT from Kagi), asking it what the early-20th century Texas case concerning rule of capture was, whether that case was online anywhere (reply: not really, though there are several discussions of it), and then where Texas State Supreme Court rulings were published. OCLC failed to give reasonable references, the Internet Archive doesn't seem to carry these, but the UPenn Online Books Page (Homepage: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/, a hugely useful tool I'm deciding) pointed me to Hathi.

On GPT: the ability to go through a series of questions about a topic, rather than just doing a keyword search, really is transformational. I'd been an early user of Google (1998/9), and online library catalogues for over a decade before that. Being able to inquire about topics and narrow down where to find things is tremendously useful, and I'm still wrapping my head around this as a tool.

cc: @pluralistic

#RuleOfCapture #HathiTrust #Texas #TexasSupremeCourt #FastGPT #GPT #Kagi #UPenn #OnlineBooksPage

I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!

With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).

More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).

Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.

#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh

I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!

With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).

More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).

Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.

#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh

I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!

With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).

More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).

Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.

#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh

I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!

With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).

More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).

Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.

#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh

I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!

With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).

More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).

Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.

#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh

The HathiTrust Research Center’s “Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction” (TORCHLITE) project is pleased to announce a call for applications to participate in our TORCHLITE Hackathon, taking place May 21-23, 2024 at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois.

Registration by March 1st: https://forms.gle/XgVj4nUsBWYnQmqEA

Contact: [email protected]

#HathiTrust #Hackathon #OpenResearch

The #HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) requests proposals for its Advanced Collaborative Support Program, a scholarly service offering collaboration between researchers and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus.

Deadline: 27.11.2023

Project Support Period: 15.12.2023 – 31.07.2024

For more details on the program and how to apply, please check:
https://myumi.ch/kx25n

The extended Internet downtime at Michigan, which appears to be a lockdown after a security intrusion, appear to me to highlight some issues with the Handle system, the underlying technology for DOIs, identifiers in repository systems like Dspace, and volume links in #Hathitrust.

The Handle protocol is pre-REST, and typically uses its own ports (usually 2641 or 8000). If you're locking down a network, it'll probably be a while before you get to start unblocking specialty ports like those. Plus…

(Looks like #HathiTrust knows about the issue: https://www.hathitrust.org/press-post/8-28-service-interruption/ I hope to see updates there; if they have an account in the Fediverse I'll also happily follow it. They also apparently posted to Twitter/X about it, but since that site no longer lets you see an account's posts unless you're signed in or have a direct link to a specific post, it's quite a bit less useful than it previously was for status reports.)

Some #HathiTrust services aren't working for me at the moment. (In particular, links from record pages to volume scans, which rely on Handle technology, as well as the "Report problems" form submission.) I'm not sure if other people are experiencing those problems, but I've emailed their tech support, and hope the issues will be resolved soon.

Online Literatur lesen, teils entleihen wie bei einer Bibliothek und eine Volltextsuche - das alles bietet #HathiTrust. Und nun haben sie dort 18 Millionen Titel: https://blog.digithek.ch/hathitrust-erreicht-18-mio-titel/
Chapeau!

We're celebrating the 52nd birthday of the #ebook today. This summer's also a milestone anniversary for my own ebook-related site, as well a milestone for some other ebook projects. In a new post on Everybody's Libraries, I thank some of the many people who have been sharing books, creative works, and information about them on the internet for the past many years: https://everybodyslibraries.com/2023/07/04/my-thanks-to-all-sharing-books-online/

#Bookstodon #ProjectGutenberg #DOAB #DistributedProofreaders #HathiTrust #InternetArchive #PennLibraries

I've updated my guide "Determining #copyright status of #serial issues" at https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/decisions.html

Main changes:
- I've updated my instructions on searching for image copyrights, which is now easier than before thanks to work done by folks at #HathiTrust and #ProjectGutenberg 's #DistributedProofreaders.

- I've updated my comments on #ControlledDigitalLending based on the March ruling against it in the Hachette v. #InternetArchive case.

Further corrections and suggestions welcome.

While the #HathiTrust court cases have come up in the #ControlledDigitalLending oral arguments, HathiTrust's Emergency Temporary Access Service so far has not, but I've seen both parties make at least passing note of it in their filings. (I'd consider ETAS to be controlled digital lending as well, but in a way that was much more constrained than what the Internet Archive has been doing. No one to my knowledge has sued HathiTrust over it.) #copyright

Still, we're no closer to the dream of Project Bamboo for some kind of infrastructure that can bring together disparate collections with scalable algorithms, in a way that everyone gets credit. The closest thing I can think of is #HathiTrust -- and that only works within its own texts and ecosystems. Good luck combining that with things your university has subscribed to. (Also, it's not easy to use!) #DHNB2023

Friday fun fact: #HathiTrust member library affiliates can download these ridiculous clip art books from the University of Minnesota libraries. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22clip+art%22+&searchtype=title&ft=ft&setft=true

#ClipArt #CutAndPaste #Zines

I have spent the day teaching everything from #HathiTrust collection-building to vanquishing Word gremlins to getting Unicode data into Excel to rotary cutter skills to Cricut configuring to threading a serger and coverstitch at the #TextileMakerspace -- all to friendly & agreeable adults. I am so tired. I would not survive two days as an elementary school teacher. #DigitalHumanities

Annual report of the Librarian of Congress (1866–2007)

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000072049

A fascinating compliation for those who find this sort of thing fascinating.

Beginning in 1866, the Librarian of Congress was charged with submitting an annual report to Congress. These provide a record into the evolution, growth, and operations of the largest print archive the world has ever known.

Details include the physical characteristics of the library itself, finance, staffing, donations, literary events, Copyright Office operations, and the status and change in holdings of the Library itself over time. There are also frequently profiles of various individuals associated with books, publishing, and libraries, e.g., the profile of of Richard Rodgers Bowker in the 1926 report: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015019393555&view=2up&seq=43&skin=2021

At least by the 1950s (and possibly earlier), acquisitions are detailed by Library of Congress Classification, giving at least some insight into what growth in published knowledge was occurring at the time.

More recent reports are available at the LoC itself:

https://www.loc.gov/about/reports-and-budgets/annual-reports/

My recommendation would be to dip-and-sample, or go to specific years and/or Librarians of interest.

Hathi's interface isn't the best, but it's serviceable. For full downloads, visit Google Books, otherwise Hathi offers only the currenlty visible page, which is ... only one of many highly annoying aspects of Hathi.

(I've not yet checked to see if LibGen / ZLibrary has this. Archive Org seems to have individual volumes, though not the entire set as a structured collection: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Annual+report+of+the+Librarian+of+Congress&sin=)

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421398

#LibraryOfCongress #Libraries #AnnualReports #HathiTrust