HathiTrust Research Center’s First Hackathon: What We Learned and Built – HathiTrust Digital Library

peter.suber's bookmarks 2024-07-10

Summary:

"From May 21 through May 23, the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) held its first ever hackathon at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

We held the event as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction (TORCHLITE) project. TORCHLITE uses HTRC’s new Extracted Features (EF) API. An API, or application programming interface, is a way for computer programs to communicate with each other, allowing access to data in a standardized way. The EF API allows programmatic access to metadata and annotated tokens (words) for more than 17 million volumes from the HathiTrust Digital Library collection, including in‑copyright material...."

Link:

https://www.hathitrust.org/blogs/hathitrust-research-centers-first-hackathon/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.hathi oa.apis oa.torchlite oa.metadata oa.mining oa.u.illinois

Date tagged:

07/10/2024, 09:27

Date published:

07/10/2024, 05:27