Intro to HathiTrust Research Center & Features with Ryan Dubnicek and Janet Swatscheno (11/11/2022)

The Black Book Interactive Project (BBIP) - part of the University of Kansas's History of Black Writing project (HBW) - is a digital archive of over 7,000 black-authored texts. It launched in 2010 and has received funding from KU, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. PhiloLogic, a searchable online metadata platform from the Textual Optics Lab at the University of Chicago, powers BBIP's HBW Novel Corpus.
This presentation was conducted primarily by the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) and its branch with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U of I). It was conducted for BBIP, in collaboration with NEH, and gives detail to scholars on how HathiTrust can be used to aid and enhance their projects.
Ryan Dubnicek is a Digital Humanities Specialist with HTRC, based out of U of I. Dubnicek has a BA in English literature and an MS in Library and Information Science, both from U of I. He contributes to research and development, general user and research support, outreach and education efforts, and HTRC’s Advanced Collaborative Support program.
Janet Swatscheno is the Digital Scholarship Librarian & Associate Director of Outreach and Education with HTRC, and previously served as Visiting Digital Publishing Specialist for the U of I Libraries, providing project management and production workflow support as part of the Library’s effort to offer high-quality, open access publishing services.