HathiTrust – How To

By Dr. Rob McGeachin20th Annual AgNIC MeetingMay 7, 2015

Overview of Presentation

• What is HathiTrust• What is in HathiTrust• Find your own local agricultural content• Determine if it is open or restricted?• Get HT Permission Agreement from Agency

Head to “Set It Free”• Check quality of content to determine if good

enough to let stand or needs a better version?• Adding Your Local Content to HT

HathiTrust.org

• “HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. “• http://www.hathitrust.org/

Content Distribution

8,234,081 – Total volumes2,102,033 – Public Domain4,527,381 Book titles202,649 Serial titles

* As of March 5, 2011

Originating Institution

* As of March 5, 2011

Sources of Content

•Google Books Project

• Internet Archive Project

•Locally-digitized partner content

Current Items By Institution

Find Local Ag Content in HTAdvanced Search

Find Local Ag Content in HTAdvanced Search

Find Local Ag Content in HTAdvanced Search

Find Local Ag Content in HTAdvanced Search

Find Local Ag Content in HTAdvanced Search

Find Local Ag Content in HTAdvanced Search

• An Advanced Search of HT has found Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins from all 50 states and Puerto Rico

Find Local Ag Content in HTAdvanced Search

• Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins from all 50 states and Puerto Rico: Largest amount (21,628) from UIUC GBP but only a third are freely open.

Rights Holder Permissions Agreement

• http://www.hathitrust.org/permissions_agreement

Example Permissions Agreement

Example Permissions Agreement

Check Quality of Existing HT Content

• Check extent of HT content versus local knowledge of extent of content.

• Are illustrations in bitonal (1-bit, only black and white) or 8-bit greyscale (or 24-bit color)?

• Is anything missing?

• Is text bitonal and less clear than if in greyscale?

Check extent of HT content versus local knowledge of extent of content.

• Bulletin of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (TAES)• 1201 from TAMU vs 1262 found in search (not all accurate finds

due to search of full-text of volumes)• Bulletin of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service (TAEX)• 33 from TAMU vs 45 found in search• 1088 known TAEX Bulletins

• Leaflet of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service• 19 in HT all restricted• 2460 known Leaflets at TAMU

• Circular of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service• 99 in HT all restricted• 729 known Circulars at TAMU

B-382 GBP bitonal

B-382 by TAMU greyscale

B-382 The Bagworms of TexasGBP bitonal

Bulletin of the Texas Agricultural Experiment StationB-382 The Bagworms of Texas 600 dpi greyscale

B-382 GBP bitonal

B-382 by TAMU greyscale

GBP B-382 pg. 36 is missing

B-382 pg. 35 & 36 by TAMU

GBP B-385 Bitonal

TAMU B-385 Greyscale

Converting Items from DSpace to HathiTrust

OAK Trust

• Page image TIFF Files in Repository .tif• PDF of document with

OCR text .pdf• Dublin Core Metadata

Records in Repository

HathiTrust

• Page Image JPEG2000 Files .jpg• OCR text file of each

page .txt• MARC XML bib

records .xml• Ingest from Submission

Information Packet with all files and a METs wrapper

Adding Your Local Content to HT

• Institution Joins the HathiTrust Partnership• http://www.hathitrust.org/partnership

• Provide Annual Estimate of Content Addition• Follow “Getting Content Into HathiTrust”• http://www.hathitrust.org/ingest

• Follow “Ingest Checklist” • http://www.hathitrust.org/ingest_checklist • FTP file of MARC XML Bibliographic Records to Zephyr in

California• Institution creates a Submission Information Packet of each

volume, submits Digital Assets Submission Inventory and Administrative Coversheet to Michigan

• U Michigan retrieves and ingests SIPs

Adding Your Local Content to HT

• Send Signed Copy of Rights Holder Permissions Agreement to HT so they can “set free” post 1922 items• http://www.hathitrust.org/permissions_agreement

Personnel Needed to Get Content into HT

• Cataloger to create MARC XML records for HT and OCLC records• Student Workers to do Page Digitization• Librarian to Administer Quality Control• Librarian to Manage/Administer the Project • Repository Librarian to create SIPs for Batch

Ingest to HT• Programmer to Run Local Repository and set up

processes for HT conversions and ingest

Summary

• Find your agricultural content that is already in HathiTrust.

• Get Rights Holder Permission Agreements from Directors/Deans to set it free.• http://www.hathitrust.org/permissions_agreement

• Examine your ag content in HT to decide if it is good enough or if you need to digitize and ingest your own better version.

Questions ?

• Acknowledgements:• Slides 4 & 5 from: Bobay, Julie, Heather Christenson, and John

Wilkin, 2011, “HathiTrust Overview.”; New Partners Webinar –March-April 2011.

• Slide 7 from: HathiTrust Digital Library Update on March Activities, April 10, 2015, p.7