“The Library is Open!”: Open Data and an Open API for the HathiTrust Digital Library

John A. Walsh, Glen Layne-Worthey, Jacob Jett, Boris Capitanu, Peter Organisciak, Ryan Dubnicek, J. Stephen Downie

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Abstract

This paper describes the history, policy, semantics, and uses of the HathiTrust Research Center Extracted Features dataset, an open-access representation of the 17+ million volume HathiTrust Digital Library, including a major current e昀昀ort to extend computational access in a variety of more 昀氀exible and easily implemented ways, including a modern API supporting customizable visualizations and analyses.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)703-714
Number of pages12
JournalCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume3558
StatePublished - 2023
Event2023 Computational Humanities Research Conference, CHR 2023 - Paris, France
Duration: Dec 6 2023Dec 8 2023

Keywords

  • APIs
  • cultural analytics
  • digital libraries
  • text analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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