{"id":2246,"date":"2008-10-13T18:44:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2008-10-13T18:44:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T23:44:02","slug":"university-libraries-in-google-project-to-offer-backup-digital-library-chroniclecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2246","title":{"rendered":"University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library &#8211; Chronicle.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/elephant.jpg' title='Hathi Slogan and Logo'><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/elephant.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Hathi Slogan and Logo' align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\"\/><\/a>From Bethany I discovered this story by the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/\">HathiTrust<\/a>, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/free\/2008\/10\/5061n.htm\">University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library<\/a> (Jeffrey R. Young, Oct. 13, 2008). &#8220;Hathi&#8221; is the hindi word for elephant suggesting memory and size. Here is a quote from the HathiTrust site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a digital repository for the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great research libraries, HathiTrust (pronounced hah-TEE) brings together the immense collections of partner institutions.<\/p>\n<p>HathiTrust was conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities to archive and share their digitized collections. Partnership is open to all who share this grand vision. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The repository, among other things, will pool the volumes digitized by Google in collaboration with the universities so there is a backup should Google lose interest. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/large_scale_search\">Large-scale search<\/a> is being studied now and they expect in November to have preview version available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bethany I discovered this story by the Chronicle of Higher Education about the HathiTrust, titled University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library (Jeffrey R. Young, Oct. 13, 2008). &#8220;Hathi&#8221; is the hindi word for elephant suggesting memory and size. Here is a quote from the HathiTrust site: As a digital repository &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library &#8211; Chronicle.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-media-and-news","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}