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What is HathiTrust and How Can it Make a Difference?
‘Sourcing and Scaling’ brought to the collective collection
What is HathiTrust?
HathiTrust is attempting nothing short of creating a comprehensive repository of published literature, primarily though not exclusively through digitization.
Language Distribution (1)
* All data was current as of March 20
Language Distribution (2)The next 40 languages make up ~13% of total
Publication Date
Originating Institution
Content over time
HathiTrust is about collections, writ large, and not about Google digitization.
The first order of HathiTrust business is long-term preservation of this digital content, and we don’t believe in preservation without access.
HathiTrust takes the business of sustainability seriously, with regard to governance, finances and technology.
The HathiTrust Business Model, v.1: Depositor Pays
all of the reasonable costs of sustaining the archive—including replacement costs and a sort of insurance policy—are combined to create a sort of atomic cost unit (in this case, a GB of content)
What are “all of the reasonable costs of sustaining the archive”?
How much does it cost?
Financial contributions of partners
HathiTrust Functional Framework
What is the cost of this atomic unit, the GB, and how does that relate to the content we’re storing?
What are replacement costs and an insurance policy?
High cost is off-set by large benefit
Collective collections have their benefits
The HathiTrust Business Model, v.2: Costs based on holdings overlap and the perceived benefits we derive
an ARL institution that wishes to use HathiTrust as part of a larger strategy—part of a “cloud” strategy
new cost model: http://www.hathitrust.org/cost
For public domain volumes: (PD*X*C)/N
For a given in copyright volume:IC=(C*X)/H
sharing in the curation; having a voice in shaping the future
But how can HathiTrust make a difference??? (x3)
Collective digital curation
driving down costs
reducing bibliographic indeterminacy
making meaningful decisions about formats and quality
increasing discoverability
consolidating development talent
improving strength of archiving
Collective print curation
a means by which to associate all of our holdings of print
perform record-keeping in a coordinated way
Subsidiary benefits
improve description
quantify problems
exerting collective attention to solving problems
scale!
“transfer resource[s] away from 'infrastructure' and towards user engagement.”
Lorcan Dempsey