Preparation
This page is a companion to the Workshop for select graduate students on the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Portal 4/8/2014.
Please do bring a laptop! If you have one, bring your own. If you do not have one, please feel free 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.
You will need to obtain login credentials. Please follow the steps on the HTRC Getting Started FAQ for getting started with the Production Portal.
Agenda
The class is a guided exploration in the HTRC portal. We will explore the algorithms and use them to discover the capabilities of the algorithms, their limitations, and various strategies for addressing those challenges. This allows us to explore the HTRC portal in specific, and grapple first hand with basic issues encountered in computational analysis of text.
Before we begin
Log on to the HTRC Production Portal 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.
Resources
- HathiTrust is:
- an international partnership of over 80 institutions.
- a digital library 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.
- a preservation repository providing long-term stewardship, redundant robust backup, continuous monitoring, persistent identifiers for all content
- HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) - "collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge."
- HTRC Portal -
- HTRC User Community Wiki -