Engaging metadata in HathiTrust to enhance access and discovery: The Cornell Veterinarian Metadata Working Group Forum Project Team: John Cline, Steven Folsom, Michelle Paolillo, Jaron Porciello

Our aim  We discuss how enabling article-level access for full-text articles residing in HathiTrust to citations in PubMed facilitates a familiar and useful research experience for the community of practice;  We describe the sociotechnical process of our work and some of the factors in our decision-making

Our case: Cornell Veterinarian  A peer-review journal published by the Alumni Association and Society of Comparative Medicine, New York State Veterinary College College, from ;  The journal is highly regarded in the field;  The Veterinary Library had funding and interest in making this title digitally available through scanning and hosting in e-Commons;  The entire run of the journal is fully available in HathiTrust;  Citations are available in PubMed, without links to full-text

Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services  Middleware service between technical experts and stakeholders;  Manage digital content creation and provide specific services such as digitization, preservation, digital publishing, repository services, copyright, web development and business modeling

SocialTechnical Where social meets technical  HathiTrust does not have a linkable table of contents. Researchers rely on this to browse for articles of interest;  Cornell Veterinarian journal articles are unavailable to researchers in their natural research “habitat,” PubMed. It is unlikely they will seek out the content in HT.  HathiTrust is full-text searchable. A linked table of contents is of little value if full-text search is enabled;  The journal is fully and openly available in HathiTrust, even if direct links to articles are not provided

Scenarios and possibilities Economic  All of our outcomes require staff investment, but the outcomes are radically different  A: Scan, develop front-end interface:, and deposit in e- Commons: Cornell Vet is online with linked TOC.  B: Explore HT metadata: Unknown. We might be able to provide full-text links to HT in a front-end interface or provide to PubMed. Responsible digital stewardship  The material has already been digitized and available in a preservation repository;  If we create a boutique collection, are we ignoring the “natural habitat” part of our scenario?  We already contribute to HathiTrust. If we re-digitize, are we double-charging our own institution?  If we are successful, we can contribute code back to HathiTrust so others can replicate this process.