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HathiTrust: A Digital Library and Preservation Repository Update (March 21, 2014)

HathiTrust is a consortium of over 80 libraries, offering access to a growing digital library with over 11 million books. It supports nearly 500 terabytes of data, with 3.7 million volumes available in the public domain. Cornell University Library patrons can leverage their Cornell NetID for enhanced access, creating public or private collections and downloading PDFs. HathiTrust is TRAC Certified, ensuring every book has a persistent identifier. For further information, various APIs offer bibliographic and content retrieval services.

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HathiTrust: A Digital Library and Preservation Repository Update (March 21, 2014)

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  1. HathiTrust: Possibilities Metadata Working Group Cornell University Library March 21, 2014

  2. HathiTrust is a consortium. A consortiumof over 80 libraries http://www.hathitrust.org/partnership http://www.hathitrust.org/governance Board of Governors Program Steering Committee Working Groups Committees

  3. HathiTrust is a digital library. A continuously growing digital library,currently home of 11M+ books Statistics and Visualizations (http://www.hathitrust.org/statistics_visualizations) • Almost 500 terabytes • 3.7M volumes (~33% of total) in the public domain • All volumes indexed in full, and searchable in full

  4. HathiTrust is a digital library. Cornell patrons can use a Cornell NetIDto login • Create Collections (public or private) • Download PDFs of any item available in full text • Obtain “Enhanced Access” if a CUL affiliate has a certified print disability (http://www.library.cornell.edu/svcs/disability#access)

  5. HathiTrust is a preservation repository. • HathiTrust is TRAC Certified. • Every book, and every page of every book, has a persistent identifier. • Cornell University Library deposits books digitized through the Google partnership.

  6. metadata info about resources data resources themselves HathiTrust: getting info out information = + http://www.hathitrust.org/data

  7. APIs: BibAPI returns bibliographic, rights, and volume information when given a single or multiple standard identifiers: OCLC number, LCCN, ISSN, ISBN, HathiTrust Volume ID, HathiTrust record number http://www.hathitrust.org/bib_api

  8. APIs: DataAPI retrieves content (page images, OCR, METS and or whole volume packages) and bibliographic info http://www.hathitrust.org/data_api

  9. OAI Harvesting OAI feed (MARC21 and Dublin Core) of public domain materials http://www.hathitrust.org/data

  10. Hathifiles tab-delimitedfilesidentifying the contents of HathiTrust repository Posted daily: http://www.hathitrust.org/hathifiles Described: http://www.hathitrust.org/hathifiles_description

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