The HathiTrust Research Center is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.

In years past, the HTRC UnCamp has brought researchers, developers, instructors, and information professionals together to showcase innovative research, participate in hands-on coding and demonstration sessions, and build community around themes of computational text analysis, digital humanities, and digital pedagogy.

Submission Guidelines

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) invites proposals for the 2018 HTRC UnCamp to be held from January 25-26th, 2018 at the University of California, Berkeley. Proposals for panel presentations, lightning talks, and posters may address any aspect of digital text collections, computational text analysis, copyright and open access, digital pedagogy, and related topics, especially as these relate to the HTRC.

Proposals may include the following formats:

• 15-minute Panel presentations (with 5 minutes for discussion) that are relevant in areas of new frontiers for tools, services and policies related to non-consumptive research, or that showcase work being conducted using the HathiTrust corpus as source material.

• 5-minute Lightning Talks that briefly showcase research projects using HTRC; the development, extension, or implementation of HTRC and related tools; library and campus support of HTRC; or instances of HTRC in the classroom. Projects in development are encouraged. Projection will be available for slides and demos.

• Posters that address topics of interest to the HTRC community (e.g., computational text analysis, open access, digital humanities, digital pedagogy) and do not need to relate to HTRC directly. Poster authors will have an opportunity to brief attendees on their work immediately prior to a networking reception where the posters will be displayed.

The following information should be included in proposal submissions:

• Format (panel presentation, lightning talk, or poster)

• Title of the presentation/poster

• Presenter name and affiliation

• Co-presenters and affiliations (if applicable)

• Abstract (up to 250 words)

• Any special requirements (e.g., technology needs other than larger monitors/screens)

List of Topics

• Computational Text Analysis (Possible areas: Computational Text Analysis (CTA) basics, Visualizing HathiTrust data, Tools and methodologies for CTA in HathiTrust, Using Bookworm, CTA and HathiTrust case studies)

• Worksets and Corpus Creation (HathiTrust as a corpus or data for CTA, How to create, reuse, or publish a focused corpus/workset from HathiTrust, Research reproducibility and sharing text as data)

• Digital Pedagogy and Text Analysis Curricula (Possible areas: Teaching Computational Text Analysis, HathiTrust & HTRC in the classroom, Instructional case studies)

• Fair Use, Copyright, and Non-Consumptive Research in HathiTrust (Possible areas: Copyright and fair use issues related to non-consumptive research, Orphaned works, HathiTrust Data Capsule, Case studies)

• Demystifying HathiTrust Metadata (Possible areas: Introduction to HathiTrust metadata, Future directions for HTRC metadata, Leveraging HathiTrust metadata for analysis and corpus building, Metadata tools)

• HathiTrust Development, News, and Updates (Possible areas: Developing tools and uses for HathiTrust, Future directions for HathiTrust, What's new in HathiTrust, HathiTrust community, Case studies of tool development)

Committees

Program Committee

• Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University (Co-Chair)
• Cody Hennesy, University of California (Co-Chair)
• Eleanor Dickson, University of Illinois
• Ryan Dubnicek, University of Illinois
• Valerie Glenn, HathiTrust Digital Library
• Inna Kouper, Indiana University
• Stacy Reardon, University of California
• Kathryn Stine, California Digital Library

Organizing committee

• Erik Mitchell, University of California
• Cody Hennesy, University of California
• Robert McDonald, Indiana University
• J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois
• Harriett Green, University of Illinois
• John Unsworth, University of Virginia
• John Walsh, Indiana University
• Kathryn Stine, California Digital Library
• Jean Ferguson, University of California
• Stacy Reardon, University of California
• Ashley Bacchi, University of California
• Ian Knabe, University of California
• Lisa Rowlison de Ortiz, University of California
• Quinn Dombrowski, University of California
• Evan Muzzall, University of California
• Patricia Frontiera, University of California

Keynote Speakers

• Elizabeth Lorang and Leen-Kiat Soh, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• David Mimno, Cornell University - David Mimno is an assistant professor in the department of Information Science at Cornell University. He holds a PhD from UMass Amherst and was previously the head programmer at the Perseus Project at Tufts and a researcher at Princeton University. His work is supported by the Sloan foundation and the NSF.

Venue

HTRC UnCamp 2018 will be hosted on the University of California, Berkeley campus. The primary venue will be the newly renovated Moffitt Library (map), with breakout events in nearby campus locations including the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and Morrison Library—both located in Doe Library (map)—the campus D-Lab in Barrows Hall (map), and the Academic Innovation Studio (AIS) in Dwinelle Hall (map). All UnCamp events and pre-conferences will be located within a 5-10 minute walk from Moffitt Library.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to htrcuncamp2018  (AT) <easychair> (DOT) <org>.

Sponsors

• HathiTrust Digital Library
• HathiTrust Research Center
• University of California-Berkeley Library
• Indiana University Libraries
• Indiana University School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
• University of Illinois iSchool
• University of Illinois University Library