HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC)

Facilitating non-profit, educational computational uses of the HathiTrust Digital Library through text and data analysis

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) facilitates non-profit and educational uses of the HathiTrust Digital Library by enabling computational analysis of works from its collection. HTRC is a collaborative research center operated by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library. Support for the Research Center at Indiana University comes from the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, University Libraries, and the School of Informatics, Computing & Engineering. It is managed within the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University.


HTRC provides services to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face in working with the HathiTrust Digital Library. In developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The center works at the cutting edge of text mining, and non-consumptive research, allowing scholars to fully utilize content of the HathiTrust Library while preventing intellectual property misuse within the confines of current U.S. copyright law. This expertise for HTRC is strengthened by IU operational units’ extensive experience in cybersecurity and research cyberinfrastructure.

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Leadership

The overall leadership of HTRC is driven by our Senior Leadership Team chaired by Director John Walsh and Co-Director J. Stephen Downie. The Senior Leadership Team reports to the Executive Director of HathiTrust Digital Library.
John Walsh

Director

John Walsh

Associate Professor of Information and Library Science

School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Indiana University

J. Stephen Downie

Co-Director

J. Stephen Downie

Professor and Associate Dean for Research

School of Information Sciences

University of Illinois

Mission

The HathiTrust Research Center supports new knowledge creation through novel computational uses of the HathiTrust Digital Library.

Successes

  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant ($1.1 Million) Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis+Data Capsule (WCSA+DC)
  • IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Grant ($400K) - Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine the HathiTrust Digital Library Resources
  • IMLS National Leadership Grant ($320K) - Data Capsule Appliance For Research Analysis Of Restricted And Sensitive Data In Academic Libraries
  • Four Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) Funded rounds of collaboration with researchers at:
        • Augsberg College
        • Brown University
        • Cornell University
        • Depaul University
        • Emory University
        • Illinois Institute of Technology
        • Indiana University
        • McGill University
        • Michigan State University
        • Northeastern University
        • Texas A&M University
        • University of California-Berkeley
        • University of Illinois
        • University of Iowa
        • University of Alberta
        • University of Notre Dame
        • University of Pennsylvania
        • Yale University
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Contact us

Locations

HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC)
Communication Services Building
2715 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47408

Phone number
812-856-3254