Comments on: ATG Hot Topic of the Week: Hathi Trust Content discoverable in Summon http://www.against-the-grain.com/2011/04/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-hathi-trust-content-discoverable-in-summon/ Linking librarians, publishers and vendors Sat, 18 May 2013 19:36:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: John Law http://www.against-the-grain.com/2011/04/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-hathi-trust-content-discoverable-in-summon/comment-page-1/#comment-28321 John Law Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:13:45 +0000 http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=4579#comment-28321 We love a good concise description and we couldn't have chosen more apt words than "Muy caliente!" Summon is all about continuous innovation and this collaboration with HathiTrust is as hot as it gets. From our vantage point, HathiTrust and Summon both offer a tremendous advantage for libraries in making their collections more accessible. Combining them puts the muy with caliente. For the first time much of a library’s printed works will be full-text searchable and discoverable from the library’s main search box. Researchers will get significantly more value from the current collection, and libraries that use Summon will have the opportunity to add millions of additional volumes (!)from HathiTrust to their library -- all full-text searchable from the library’s digital front door. Serials Solutions is passionate about enabling libraries to be the best partners in research. Working with the talented folks at HathiTrust is helping us meet that mission in a new and very signficant way. John Wilkin defined it as "imaginative." Indeed, this is the kind of collaboration that drives innovation forward and inspires us to "cook" together to uncover ever more creative opportunities. We love a good concise description and we couldn’t have chosen more apt words than “Muy caliente!” Summon is all about continuous innovation and this collaboration with HathiTrust is as hot as it gets.

From our vantage point, HathiTrust and Summon both offer a tremendous advantage for libraries in making their collections more accessible. Combining them puts the muy with caliente. For the first time much of a library’s printed works will be full-text searchable and discoverable from the library’s main search box. Researchers will get significantly more value from the current collection, and libraries that use Summon will have the opportunity to add millions of additional volumes (!)from HathiTrust to their library — all full-text searchable from the library’s digital front door.

Serials Solutions is passionate about enabling libraries to be the best partners in research. Working with the talented folks at HathiTrust is helping us meet that mission in a new and very signficant way. John Wilkin defined it as “imaginative.” Indeed, this is the kind of collaboration that drives innovation forward and inspires us to “cook” together to uncover ever more creative opportunities.

]]> By: John Wilkin http://www.against-the-grain.com/2011/04/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-hathi-trust-content-discoverable-in-summon/comment-page-1/#comment-28290 John Wilkin Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:09:06 +0000 http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=4579#comment-28290 Thanks ATG. If Charleston works out, that would be great. Siva's analysis has been extraordinarily helpful for the library community. Thanks ATG. If Charleston works out, that would be great. Siva’s analysis has been extraordinarily helpful for the library community.

]]> By: Dennis Brunning http://www.against-the-grain.com/2011/04/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-hathi-trust-content-discoverable-in-summon/comment-page-1/#comment-28284 Dennis Brunning Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:39:22 +0000 http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=4579#comment-28284 John thanks for dropping in. Hathi Trust is definitely Muy Caliente—just have to figure out where the rest of us fit in. Have you read the great press Siva Vaidhyanathan has given Hathi Trust in his book Googlization of Everything? Hathi Trust is the interface Google wishes it had for books... This is a great read for librarians—puts Google and the book project in perspective. Up until now Google has been praised and blamed mainly in black and white terms. GOE shapes a better understanding—at least for yours truly. If Siva can meet ATG’s deadline, we’ll have a question and answer in the April issue. It would be great to have you and Siva on a panel at the Charleston Conference. I would include the Black Keys but they are booked solid... Still want to interview you about pizza as well as digital preservation… Everyone: http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/ John thanks for dropping in. Hathi Trust is definitely Muy Caliente—just have to figure out where the rest of us fit in. Have you read the great press Siva Vaidhyanathan has given Hathi Trust in his book Googlization of Everything? Hathi Trust is the interface Google wishes it had for books…

This is a great read for librarians—puts Google and the book project in perspective. Up until now Google has been praised and blamed mainly in black and white terms. GOE shapes a better understanding—at least for yours truly. If Siva can meet ATG’s deadline, we’ll have a question and answer in the April issue. It would be great to have you and Siva on a panel at the Charleston Conference. I would include the Black Keys but they are booked solid…

Still want to interview you about pizza as well as digital preservation…

Everyone:
http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/

]]> By: John Wilkin http://www.against-the-grain.com/2011/04/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-hathi-trust-content-discoverable-in-summon/comment-page-1/#comment-28282 John Wilkin Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:56:47 +0000 http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=4579#comment-28282 Thanks for the focus--at HathiTrust, we aspire to Muy Caliente! Just a quick word from the HathiTrust executive director to say that libraries continue to come into the HathiTrust partners, many of them not Google digitization partners. Some of these libraries bring with them the fruits of local digitization efforts. Also that we don't do "exclusive": we've made samples of the indexed HathiTrust content available to other major discovery players in this space. Kudos to Summon for their imagination and vigorous pursuit of this strategy. Thanks for the focus–at HathiTrust, we aspire to Muy Caliente! Just a quick word from the HathiTrust executive director to say that libraries continue to come into the HathiTrust partners, many of them not Google digitization partners. Some of these libraries bring with them the fruits of local digitization efforts. Also that we don’t do “exclusive”: we’ve made samples of the indexed HathiTrust content available to other major discovery players in this space. Kudos to Summon for their imagination and vigorous pursuit of this strategy.

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