HathiTrust Research Center seeks proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support projects — Jan. 8 deadline

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. ACS is a newly launched scholarly service at the HTRC offering collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to HTRC tools and services. By working together with scholars, the project aims to facilitate computational access to HathiTrust Research Center digital tools (HTRC) as well as the HathiTrust (HT) digital library based on individual scholarly need.

A complete copy of the RFP is available online.

RFP Schedule

Program Description (see the full RFP (PDF) for more detail)

The HathiTrust (HT) is a large digitized-text corpus (> 10 million volumes) available to researchers working in a wide range of scholarly disciplines.

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library (HT) to help meet the technical challenges that researchers face when dealing with massive amounts of digital text.

The HTRC Advanced Collaboration Support Group (ACS) engages with users directly on a one-on-one basis over extended period of time lasting from weeks to months. The ACS Group, selected from the membership of the HTRC user community, pairs the ACS awardee with expert staff members to work collaboratively on challenging problems. Respondents are urged to contact htrc.acs.awards@gmail.com in advance of proposal submission to discuss eligibility, project details, prerequisites, and HTRC support.