The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced that it has awarded its second round of Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. For the first time, HTRC accepted proposals requesting non-consumptive, computational access to in-copyright materials for research purposes, marking a significant milestone for the HathiTrust. Scholars working in a broad array of fields from institutions around the world submitted proposals, and just four were awarded ACS.
Each awardee will be provided dedicated HTRC staff time to support their research of material in the HathiTrust for a period of three to six months. Proposals were reviewed on their feasibility, research methodology, and compatibility with HTRC staff resources, as well as the availability of their requested data and potential to positively benefit the wider HTRC community.
Four projects were selected in this round: Fighting Fever in the Caribbean: Medicine and Empire, 1650-1902, Mariola Espinosa, University of Iowa; Inside the Creativity Boom, Samuel Franklin, Brown University; The Chicago School: Wikification as the First Step in Text Mining in Architectural History, Dan Baciu, Illinois Institute of Technology; and Signal and Noise and Pride and Prejudice: Toward an Information History of Romantic Fiction, Dallas Liddle, Augsburg College.
HTRC anticipates releasing the next RFP this fall for projects starting in early 2017. The HTRC ACS program is funded in part by HathiTrust, Indiana University, and the University of Illinois.
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