User group meeting (agenda/announcement) of June 13, 2014

Dear scholars,

We will be finally having the long-awaited user group conference call in which the HathiTrust Research Center's newly released Feature Extraction service (alpha version) will be discussed! The call will be held at 2 pm Eastern Time, on Friday June 13.

Here are the teleconference details:

Begin Time: 2:00:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
End Time: 3:00:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Phone Number: (812) 856-3600

Participant PIN: 592186#

For reference, here is the announcement of the release, in the form it was posted earlier this week on the Digital Humanities Public Group of the Modern Language Association (MLA):

<http://commons.mla.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/hathi-trust-research-center-feature-extraction/>

(The announcement at the above URL contains pointers to how you can explore this new functionality.)

For additional context, here is University of Illinois English professor Ted Underwood's blog post concerning this release:

"A window on the twentieth century may be about to open." ['The Stone and the Shell' blog, posted by Ted Underwood, June 3 2014],
<http://tedunderwood.com/2014/06/03/a-window-on-the-twentieth-century-may-be-about-to-open/>

Your inputs will be greatly appreciated. If you cannot make the conference call, and/or want to share your suggestions with the user community about this release by email, you can reply to this list, <htrc-usergroup-l@list.iu.edu>.

If you want to reach just the Feature Extraction support folks at HTRC with comments, questions and/or suggestions, you can email <htrc-support-l@list.iu.edu> .

Thank you very much.