World largest book archive, HathiTrust

Measuring Content Quality In A Preservation Repository: Hathitrust And Large-Scale Book Digitization

As mechanisms emerge to certify the trustworthiness of digital preservation repositories, no systematic efforts have been devoted to assessing the quality and usefulness of the preserved content itself. With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Michigan’s School of Information, in close collaboration with the University of Michigan Library and HathiTrust, is ...

The Dark History of HathiTrust

This research explores the ways values, power, and politics shape and are shaped by digital infrastructure development through an in-depth study of HathiTrust’s “dark history,” the period of years leading up to its public launch. This research identifies and traces the emerging and iterative ways that values were surfaced and negotiated, decisionmaking approaches were strategically modified, an...

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Reading ‘Writing the Book of the World’

Speaker-based accented English clustering using a world English archive

English is the only language available for global communication. Due to the influence of speakers’ mother tongue, however, those from different regions often have different accents in their pronunciation of English. The ultimate goal of our project is automatic creation of a global pronunciation map of World Englishes on an individual basis, for speakers to use to locate similar English pronunc...