HathiTrust has reached a tremendous milestone in the history of HathiTrust and the HathiTrust Research Center’s services.
Since 2011, HTRC has been developing services and tools to allow researchers to employ text and data mining methodologies using the HathiTrust collection. To date, this service has been available only on the portion of the collection that is out of copyright. With the development of a landmark HathiTrust policy and an updated release of HTRC Analytics, HTRC now provides access to the text of the complete 16.7-million-item HathiTrust corpus for non-consumptive research, such as data mining and computational analysis, including items protected by copyright.
This release was supported, in part, by the WCSA+DC project, with advanced use cases in computational linguistics and digital humanities from WCSA+DC partners serving as beta testers whose feedback was used to refine and improve the services and tools in the release.
For more information, read the full press release on the HathiTrust website.