Director
John Walsh
Associate Professor of Information and Library Science
School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Indiana University
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.
Learn more about HTRC.