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This page is a companion to the Workshop for select graduate students on the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Portal 4/8/2014.

Preparation

• Please do bring a laptop! If you have one, bring your own. If you do not have one, please feel free

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  to check one out at the Olin circulation desk. Having a laptop will allow you to participate in the exercises and get the most out of class.

• No special software will be needed. All exercises will be done through a Web browser, without any special plugins. However, Firefox is the browser that will work best for rendering results.

• You will need to obtain credentials to log in. Please follow the steps on the

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  HTRC wiki (see "How do I obtain an account?")

  for getting started with the production portal.

• Think about subject matter around which you might want to build a collection for analysis.  The production portal is limited to the 3M+ items that have been digitized by Google and are in the public domain.  These tend to be works that have been published before 1923, or are government documents, or items that are exceptions to various copyright restrictions. 

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• Book mark this page for handy access. We will be referring to it at points in the workshop.

• Log on to the

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  with your personal credentials.
  • Once signed in, click on "Algorithms" in the black navigational bar at the top of the page. Once you have done so, we will be ready to begin.

• Worksets can be managed through the

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  . You can also access this by using the "Create Workset" link. Regardless of the avenue of entrance, you will have to log in a second time with the same credentials you are using in the Production Portal.

  • Worksets can be created through

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    of a CSV file containing Volume IDs

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    MUST be created through upload.

• I've made three collections for your use in this class. (You are not obligated to use these; you may want to use collections of your own in the exercises.)
  • ShakespeareComedies@MPaolillo - 58 dramas authored by William Shakespeare with MARC 655 field denoting "Tragedies."
  • ShakespeareTragedies@MPaolillo - 54 dramas authored by William Shakespeare with MARC 655 field denoting "Comedies."
  • ShakespearePlays@MPaolillo - A larger CSV formatted collection consisting of the contents of both of the other two collections.

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  when referencing custom stop word lists. I can post lists relevant to your collections if you have them.

• There may be a bug that prevents display of the results of the algorithm "Meandre_OpenNLP_Date_Entities_To_Simile". You can display locally by following this fix:
  • Download the date_entity_simile.html to your machine and save.

  • Open with a text editor and change this line

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    <script src="https://htrc2.pti.indiana.edu/HTRC-UI-Portal2/js/timeline-api.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    to this line

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    <script src="http://api.simile-widgets.org/timeline/2.3.1/timeline-api.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

  • Save the html file and open with a web browser and the data should display. (Firefox works best with Simile.)

Resources

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  is:

  • an international

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    of over 80 institutions.

  • a

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    containing over 11 million books, 33% of which are in the public domain. All items are fully indexed, allowing for full text search within all volumes. You can login with your Cornell NetID to
    • Create Collections (public or private)
    • Download PDF’s of any item available in full text

  • a trustworthy

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    providing long-term stewardship, redundant robust backup, continuous monitoring, persistent identifiers for all content

  • where Cornell University Library deposits books it digitizes at scale.

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  - a collaborative research center (jointly managed by Indiana University and the University of Illinois) dedicated to developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure that enable advanced computational access to large amounts of digital text.

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    - a web-based user experience of the HTRC. The production portal makes available all the full-text indexes of the Google-digitized deposits to HathiTrust that are in the public domain.

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    - home of the user support documentation, meeting notes, elist addresses and sign-up information, and FAQs.

• A summary of the algorithms is attached below.
  
  

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