[Web4lib] Enhanced "e-book" service?!

[Heather Christenson]

Tim,
Indeed there are lots of reasons why we're motivated to grow the
capabilities of the HathiTrust Collection Builder in terms of scale and
functionality.  Scale is something we're already in the early stages of
planning for and collections of hundreds of thousands of items will be
possible, eventually.

Right now an ambitious user can manually create a collection of several
hundred items.  We can consider proposals for larger collections on a case
by case basis, and have tools behind the scenes to automate the building
process. Identifiers cannot be sent in the search request at this time, but
that's certainly a good idea.
--Heather


On 10/13/10 1:10 PM, "Tim Spalding" <tim at librarything.com> wrote:

> Can people build up "large" collections—ie., 100,000 books in a public
> library? Can we manually build up LibraryThing-sized ones (eg.,
> 200-2,000 books)? Can the identifiers be sent in the search request,
> rather than as a pre-defined collection?
> 
> Best,
> Tim
> 
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Heather Christenson
> <heather.christenson at ucop.edu> wrote:
>> It's early days, but right now HathiTrust enables a user to build a
>> collection of items they choose, and then perform full text queries across
>> the items in that collection.  The result set lists the volumes where your
>> term appears, then you can click in on each one to see the page numbers
>> where the term appears.  The user can designate a collection as public or
>> private.
>> 
>> List of public collections:
>> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listcs;colltype=pub;debug=
>> 
>> Here's a sample collection, "How To Be A Domestic Goddess":
>> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=1679046231
>> 
>> A search for "pumpkin" within that collection:
>> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?c=1679046231;a=listsrch;q1=pumpkin;sort=r
>> el_d;pn=1
>> 
>> HathiTrust is working to expand our capabilities and it's great to see a
>> discussion of desirable functionality here on web4lib
>> 
>> --Heather
>> 
>> --
>> Heather Christenson
>> Mass Digitization Project Manager
>> University of California
>> California Digital Library
>> http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/massdig/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/11/10 2:36 PM, "Tim Spalding" <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> No, we don't have scans of the books. We'd love to tie into a service,
>>> but Google doesn't allow arbitrary sets to be searched--we'd need to
>>> tell users to import them. Hathi doesn't do it either. The and, r big
>>> problem is, of course, that it's very partial. It's a good thing to
>>> search a portion of your books‹what proportion varies widely but it
>>> would be small indeed for me‹but it's also limiting.
>>> 
>>> Tim
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Norma Jean Hewlett <hewlett at usfca.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Tim, does Library Thing offer this feature?
>>>> Jean Hewlett
>>>> University of San Francisco
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'd like to see Hathi Trust offer this feature. I'd rather not see
>>>>> libraries upload their collections to Google for this, even if Google
>>>>> wanted them to.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tim
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>> 
>> --
>> Heather Christenson
>> Mass Digitization Project Manager
>> University of California
>> California Digital Library
>> http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/massdig/
>> 
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-- 
Heather Christenson
Mass Digitization Project Manager
University of California
California Digital Library
http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/massdig/