Announcements

Call for Applications: HTRC TORCHLITE Hackathon

Are you a researcher or programmer interested in working with HathiTrust Digital Library data? Do you have experience in working with text analysis or data visualization? The HathiTrust Research Center’s “Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction” (TORCHLITE) project can help!

RFP: 2023-2024 Advanced Collaborative Support Awards

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

Previous ACS awardees are not eligible. Such proposals should demonstrate:

SCWAReD Advanced Collaborative Support Program: Call for Proposals

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) requests proposals for a special funded round of its Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) program, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for HTRC’s “Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Dissemination (SCWAReD)” project.

HathiTrust Research Center Awards Four ACS Projects

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is pleased to announce the award of its second round of Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. For the first time, HTRC accepted proposals requesting non-consumptive, computational access to in-copyright materials for research purposes, marking a significant milestone for the HathiTrust. Scholars working in a broad array of fields from institutions around the world submitted proposals, and just four were awarded ACS.

Spring 2016 HTRC ACS RFP

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. ACS is a scholarly service at HTRC offering collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis. By working together with scholars, we facilitate computational access to HathiTrust Research Center digital tools as well as the HathiTrust digital library (HT) based on individual scholarly need.

HTRC Service Release v3.1 for Uncamp 2015

HTRC Services v3.1 has been released for HTRC Uncamp 2015 on March 26, 2015.  This release has a small set of new features and was mainly aimed at bug fixes. 

HTRC Services 3.0 Final Release on Feb 27 2015

The HTRC team made the final release for 3.0 on Feb 27 2015.  This version addresses problems found during the 3.0 Beta test period which started on Jan 23 2015, as well as adds an improved user account registration process.  Over 50 corrections were made by the HTRC team during the Beta test. Thanks to everyone who reported a problem or made a suggestion.

HathiTrust Research Center Awards Three ACS Projects

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. For the inaugural round, HTRC received a total of nine proposals from scholars from a broad set of institutions and research fields.

Each proposal was carefully reviewed for feasibility, research methodology, suitability of the proposed collaboration to HTRC staff availability, availability of the needed data in time for project beginning, and potential adaptability of the outcomes to the broader HTRC community.

HTRC Services v3.0 in Beta Test through Jan 30 2015

RFP: Advanced Collaborative Support for the HathiTrust Research Center

HathiTrust Research Center Seeks a Manager of Operations and Lead R&D Architect

The HathiTrust Research Center seeks a skilled senior systems engineer to serve as Operations Manager of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) software and services, and assume a role as Lead R&D Architect in architecting the evolution of the system and services in response to community need and research and development efforts. The candidate is responsible for overseeing daily operations, system security, and ensuring stability, availability, reliability, and safety of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) software and services. The candidate will be comfortable in both a research and operational setting, and possess technical vision and the ability to work with and through others to achieve the vision. He or she will lead technical and operational efforts, and be effective in resolving conflicts. The person will operate in a matrix reporting setting, reporting ultimately to an Executive Management team of HTRC, so will be a self-starter and highly independently motivated. The candidate should be fluent with web services development, scripting languages, data management technologies, and Web authentication and authorization technologies. The position is funded through 2018.

Release of Feature Extraction (alpha version)

Hathi Trust Research Center feature extraction

Dear friends and colleagues,

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is proud to announce the alpha release of a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter-million text volumes.

HTRC Release 2.0

News:  Release 2.0, December 2013:  contains numerous enhancements and fixes.  These are listed in the Changes Since Last Release column.  Those that are user-facing feature enhancements are highlighted in red.  

Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project