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Toward New Epistemologies? HATHITRUST! A Shared Digital Repository! Humanisc Inquiry with Large Corpora of Digized Text and Metadata: Toward New Epistemologies? Sayan Baacharyya Jeremy York, Assistant Director, HathiTrust January 9, 2015 Unless otherwise noted, these slides and their contents are licensed under a Creave Commons A'ribuDon Unported License. Outline • Part 1 – Brief history of digital texts – Overview of HathiTrust / Origins of HTRC • Part 2 – HathiTrust Research Center Demo – HathiTrust Research Center IniDaves • Part 3 – Discussion A Brief History of Digital Texts Digital text resources • Project Gutenberg (U of Illinois) – 1971 • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (UC Irvine)– 1972 • Oxford Text Archive (U of Oxford) – 1976 • ARTFL Project (U of Chicago)– 1982 • Perseus Digital Library (Tu\s)– 1985 • Text Encoding IniDave – 1987 • Women Writers Project (Brown U) – 1988 Digital Imaging • Yale Open Book Project (1991) • Cornell Demonstraon Project (1993) • Library of Congress Naonal Digital Library; American Memory (1994) • Making of America (University of Michigan and Cornell) (1995) 9 January 2015 5 HathiTrust HathiTrust Members Allegheny College Tufts University University of Connecticut Arizona State University University of Notre Dame University of Delaware Baylor University University of Oklahoma University of Houston Boston 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