“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

“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

Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

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 language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	703-714
Number of pages	12
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	3558
State	Published - 2023
Event	2023 Computational Humanities Research Conference, CHR 2023 - Paris, France Duration: Dec 6 2023 → Dec 8 2023

Keywords

APIs
cultural analytics
digital libraries
text analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Computer Science

Library availability

Discover UIUC Full Text

Cite this

@article{9529a4c416da4069adb1e5d1f8070952,

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

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.",

keywords = "APIs, cultural analytics, digital libraries, text analysis",

author = "Walsh, \{John A.\} and Glen Layne-Worthey and Jacob Jett and Boris Capitanu and Peter Organisciak and Ryan Dubnicek and Downie, \{J. Stephen\}",

note = "We conclude with a description of a major new HTRC e昀昀ort intended to make its rich EF data more accessible, more usable, and more readily available to researchers and librarians: Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction ?TORCHLITE), generously funded by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities in 2021.21; 2023 Computational Humanities Research Conference, CHR 2023 ; Conference date: 06-12-2023 Through 08-12-2023",

year = "2023",

language = "English (US)",

volume = "3558",

pages = "703--714",

journal = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings",

issn = "1613-0073",

publisher = "CEUR-WS",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - “The Library is Open!”

T2 - 2023 Computational Humanities Research Conference, CHR 2023

AU - Walsh, John A.

AU - Layne-Worthey, Glen

AU - Jett, Jacob

AU - Capitanu, Boris

AU - Organisciak, Peter

AU - Dubnicek, Ryan

AU - Downie, J. Stephen

N1 - We conclude with a description of a major new HTRC e昀昀ort intended to make its rich EF data more accessible, more usable, and more readily available to researchers and librarians: Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction ?TORCHLITE), generously funded by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities in 2021.21

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - APIs

KW - cultural analytics

KW - digital libraries

KW - text analysis

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85178658224

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85178658224#tab=citedBy

M3 - Conference article

AN - SCOPUS:85178658224

SN - 1613-0073

VL - 3558

SP - 703

EP - 714

JO - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

JF - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Y2 - 6 December 2023 through 8 December 2023

ER -

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

Abstract

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Library availability

Related links

Fingerprint

Cite this