is up, you guys. I'll look back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I am GoPonig, I do new car track SUV reviews on YouTube. And today we are in the brand new 2023 Nissan Maxima courtesy of younger Nissan in Frederick, Maryland for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. And so today we are in this one because believe it or not, Nissan has announced this will be the final year for the Nissan Maxima, which is kind of sad because it's been around since 1980, so it is older than me. So that is kind of sad to see a nameplate like that go away. Not to say though that it won't come back and maybe kind of in a electrified form of some sort, but for now, this will be the last year for the Maxima. It's a good looking sedan. So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering feel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so there will be three different trim levels for the 2023 Maxima. First one being the SV starting at $38,140, which is a modest $700 increase from the 2022 model year. And I say modest because most manufacturers right now are a thousand or more above the previous year model just because inflation and all that fun stuff. SR trim, which is the one we have today starting at $43,300 and lastly the Platinum starting at $44,250. But regardless of trim level that you go with, the power plant on the Maxima is going to be the same. Powering the beast is a 3.5 liter naturally aspirated V6 putting out 300 horsepower at 6,400 RPM, 261 pound-feet of torque coming in at 4,400 RPM. Power is going to be sent to the front wheels through a CVT with paddle shifters, which you guys know we will of course be testing out here in a little bit. Zero to 60 time coming in at approximately 5.7 seconds top speed if you're interested. 133 miles per hour with MPG numbers coming in at 20 in the city, 30 on the highway taking premium unleaded fuel. And so before we do any kind of fun acceleration or paddle shifter test here in the Maxima, wanted to mention to you guys the drive mode. There is one of them. Obviously the Maxima defaults to a normal mode but there is a sport driving mode button located just behind the circular dial. So having said that, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put the paddle shifters and acceleration here to the test and let's see how quickly the paddle shifters are going to react for us here and let's see how quickly we can get our new Maxima here up to speed. Let me go ahead and hit that sport button so we are ready to go. And so by the way, full manual shift mode. You can do that for this thing. All you need to do is slide the shifter all the way to the back and to the left is going to display what simulated gear you are in up on the digital portion of the gauges because it is a CVT after all. So in three, two, one, yo baby. Yeah, that feels good man. All right, so you got a little bit of slowness with the paddle shifters to be expected because it is a CVT is not a dual clutch which would give you a quick reacting paddle shifter. But having said that, this thing is plenty quick. So a little bit of slipping at the beginning because 300 horsepower being sent to the front wheels after all, but not a whole lot of torque steer whatsoever, but there was a little bit of slipping. It is slippery out today. You guys could probably see from the GoPro here the roads are a bit wet. It did rain earlier today. So there is a little bit of slipping but having said that, this because there's a lot of power being set to the front wheels. If there wasn't wet roads today, that probably would have been an insane acceleration. I still felt it as well in the pit of my stomach with that acceleration. So Maxima, plenty quick, not going to have any issues with merging onto the highway, but anyways. To go along with that acceleration is always breaking is equally important.  As far as that six easier stopping distance goes comes in at 113 feet. Let me tell you about that number you guys. That is sports sedan good. Anything in the one teens is brilliant. Typically in sedans you find 120s, in SUVs you find 130s, in big trucks you find 140s. One teens though, that is sports sedan good. I love that number for the Maxima. As far as braking feel goes, it's plenty fine. Definitely not a soft braking feel. Leans towards the firmer side of things. And again, the number itself, it speaks for itself. So that is a brilliant number for the braking. But anyways, then touching on suspension and handling in front you're going to get an independent strut type front suspension in the back, independent multi-link rear suspension, front and rear stabilizer bars. But, did want to mention though, if you go with the SR trim that we have today, they're just going to add several different suspension components as well, including a sport tune suspension. What is a sport tune suspension? That is going to be a retuned damper, stiffer springs, and a larger front stabilizer bar as well. So overall as far as ride quality goes, honestly to my surprise, it hasn't been all that bad in my short little test drive here, at least in Frederick. So usually with sport tune suspensions, without an adaptive damping suspension, you are going to feel a bit more of the road. But having said that, like I said, there are some punishing roads here in Frederick and so far in my short little test drive, it honestly hasn't been that bad. So no issues with the ride quality there. As far as steering feel goes, I wouldn't have minded if they firmed it up a little bit. I'm still in the sport driving mode. I would have loved to have seen a heavier steering feel in that sport driving mode that it's still kind of on the looser side of things. Now it's not super loosey-goosey or anything like that, like a Hyundai Sonata, but it's certainly not an Acura Integra either. The Acura Integra steering feel is quite brilliant. So like I said, wouldn't have minded seeing a little heavier steering feel in Nissan. If you're watching this playing I'll bring you back the maximum name. There's one little constructive criticism for you there. As far as cabin noise goes, I'm going 30 miles per hour right now. There isn't a whole lot of, there's no wind noise whatsoever. There's a heck of a lot of road noise either. So I have no issues whatsoever when it comes to cabin noise. It kind of rides like a luxury car on the inside here. Touching on visibility, it's not bad. I can see perfectly fine out the back. Nissan hasn't necessarily been known for visibility with their Nissan 370Z and vehicles like that. But honestly with the Maxima, it's not bad at all. So no issues of rear visibility. Rain-sensing windshield wipers are also going to come on the Platinum trim level, adding to forward visibility because what that is is essentially going to turn on the windshield wipers whenever the Maxima detects any kind of mist or rainfall. So that's going to assist with forward visibility there as well. But that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2023 Nissan Maxima. All right and so here she is you guys, the new 2023 Nissan Maxima finished in super black. In case you were curious of that exact exterior color name that we had on this one here today. As always, let's go ahead and start with where this one is made. The VIN number starts with the number one indicating that the Maxima here is built and assembled in the U.S. So let's go ahead and start up front. Chrome V motion front grille is going to come standard on the SV and the Platinum trim levels. However, if you were to go with that SR that we have today that is switched up to a gloss black V motion front grille. So you guys clearly tell, but the one minor change for the 2023 Maxima is going to be the emblem. So the Nissan logo I should say it, both in the front and the back are slightly switched up to the modern look. So don't want to mention that as well. But to the sides, LED headlights with LED daytime running lights do come standard. Automatic feature coming with them, of course, meaning when it starts to get dark in the night the headlights will turn on automatically for you there. Also though, automatic high beams coming standard on the Maxima. So if you have your high beams on at night and it senses a vehicle coming in the opposite direction it's going to automatically dim them back to low beams and when that vehicle is gone it's going to automatically then bounce it back up to high beams. So nice little convenience feature there. And of course you guys could probably see below those headlights we do have the LED fog lights which actually come standard on every single trim level across the board. So that is a big win as well for the Maxima but very aggressive, very stealth-like looking front end on our SR trim that we have with us here today. But anyways, that pretty much rounds out the front end. So now go ahead and make our way to the side of this one. All right, so now since we are around to the side of the Maxima chrome belt line molding actually come standard on every single trim level across the board even our SR that we have with us here today. Of course towards the back you got that floating roof line separating the roof from the rest of the body. Power adjustable gloss black side mirrors do come standard on all trim levels.  Wanted to emphasize that. Heated side mirrors also coming standard with LED integrated turn signals as well. And if you were to go with the SR or Platinum trims you're going to get that reverse tilt down feature when you put this thing in reverse. So that is pretty cool too. But anyways, then take a look down at the wheel setup 18 inch machine finished alloys for the SV, 19 inch gloss black aluminum alloys for the SR. That's what you guys are looking at of course. And 19 inch machine finished aluminum alloys for the Platinum trim level. But that pretty much rounds out the side profile. Let's not go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so now since we are around to the back of this one all the way to the top you got that gloss black antenna. Just below that you got a rear spoiler for the SR trim level only with an integrated brake light into it too. That's pretty cool. You do have the trim level badging found back there. You can see the SR on the passenger side taillight just above it there. LED taillights though coming standard. They look absolutely amazing back here. I love that look. But let me get down to the bottom here because we actually have an option here. We have the optional rear diffuser. So you guys can see that finished in chrome because for $370 if you were interested I think it looks dang good back there. So well done. I like that rear diffuser. But anyways to the sides, dual exhaust outlets with quad tips in our case finished in black. So having said that I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since we are around to the back of the Maximo when it comes to opening that rear trunk there's a few different ways to go ahead and do it. There is a button on the key fob. There's a button by the driver's side left knee. And there is a rubberized button of course on the trunk itself as well. But once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 14.3 cubic feet. If that was not enough space there is a 6040 split meaning the rear seats do fold down for quite a bit of extra space. And if you needed it there is some cargo lighting found in that cargo area. Of course there's a couple of grocery bag hooks. They were pretty large grocery bag hooks. So I did like that. And if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor you are going to find a spare tire located there as well as opposed to the fixed flat. So I like that as well. But then make your way up to the rear legroom that comes in at 34.2 inches for reference. I mean even six feet tall this is how much space I had in the back there. Rear ventilation does come standard just below that. You're going to find a USB-A and USB-C charging port. So I like that as well. Rear center armrest with cup holders but there's also a slot where you can actually put yourself in back there as well. So that's pretty cool. And then if you were to go with the platinum trim level for the rear passengers at least you will get heated rear seats back there too. So that's pretty cool. Then making our way up to the front seats eight way power driver seat with power lumbar coming standard four way power adjustable passenger seat. Also standard the SR trim that we have today is going to add to that thigh support as well as memory settings for up to two different drivers found in the driver's side door there. Heated front seats are going to come standard leather seating is going to come standard. But if you were to go with the platinum you're going to get diamond quilted inserts in that leather seating. Then if you were to go with the SR that we have you're going to get diamond quilted Alcantara insert. So it's like a suede finish. So overall as far as seat comfort goes it's okay to make it perfect Nissan. What I would personally do is get rid of the horizontal seam going through the middle because it creates an awkward pressure point and make everything vertical seams like luxury brands do like Acura and Lexus just name a couple there. So vertical seams are where it's out for the ultimate seat comfort. But then taking a look at the steering wheel it is tilt and telescoping and it's power adjustable for the platinum trim level only leather wrapped for all trim levels it does come with a flat bottom. I love that. And Alcantara inserts to match the seating if you were to go with that SR trim level. So that's pretty cool. Heated steering wheels then going to come with the SR and the platinum. Now let's go ahead and make our way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key here. All of your buttons are located on one side of the key got your Nissan logo at the top. Of course lock, unlock button to pop the rear trunk but the circular button just underneath of that Nissan logo that's going to be a remote start which actually does come standard on every single trim level across the board. So that's going to help warm up the maxima on colder days in Western Maryland. So I like that. But ultimately this is all keyless entry with a push button start. So all I'm going to do here is simply put my foot on the aluminum brake pedal here which is pretty cool and press that and did start button located just in front of the shifter. And so once started up tachometers all the way to your left speedometer is on your right. There is a seven inch digital cluster found in the middle of it all to control what is on those digital portion of the gauges. There are steering wheel mounted controls found at the left side of the steering wheel of course, but giving you things like a compass a digital speedometer outside temperature how many miles you have left until you hit empty. Tire pressure, the list goes on. So pretty much everything you possibly want on the digital portion of the gauges there. Then touching on overall interior quality a dual panel panoramic moonroof is going to come on the SR and platinum trim level. So that is what you guys are looking at right now of course, auto dimming rear view mirror is going to come standard but you also get homely controls up to three different garage doors on the bottom portion of that. If you were to go with the SR or platinum trim levels also ambient LED lighting coming with the SR or platinum trim levels as well. Dual zoom climb control though that comes standard. You're going to get wood trim accents for the platinum. You're going to get some satin dark chrome trim for the SR aluminum foot pedals again for the SR trim level as well. So overall as far as interior quality goes it's not that bad actually. So I like the silver finish located just around the shifter a lot of manufacturers will leave that a gray matte plastic or whatever. So I like the silver finish also like the gloss black finishes around the cup holders I like the little trim accenting like I was just mentioning going through the doors just above the passenger side glove box all of the orange contrast stitching definitely works well for our SR trim level as well. Here you got an overhead sunglass holder I must forgot to mention that just in front of the just to the right of the shifter you have a decent amount of storage as well as a bunch of charging ports there dual cup holders of course and within the center armrest decent amount of storage you have to have some coin storage in there and a 12 volt power outlet. So interior quality is perfectly fine for me it's kind of luxury esque so I'm a big fan of that but now let's go ahead and make our way to the infotainment screen and specifically let me start with what is just above that infotainment screen because you never see that these days but you got a CD player. That's right if you use CDs still you got it here in the Maxima so probably the only car where that is still available but anyways eight inch color touch screen display does come standard Bluetooth and audio streaming does come standard Android Auto Apple CarPlay factory navigation system also coming standard on every single trim level across the board so gotta love that of course you can check out your radio information up there and so when it comes to the sound systems there's a couple of them eight speakers is going to come in the SV however if you were to go with that SR or Platinum you're going to get an 11 speaker Bose sound system so that is the one we have today so what do you guys say let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one alright bass is where it's at with Nissan and Infiniti I've said that a thousand times bass was plenty good in the Maxima without a doubt for 11 speakers it was expecting a bit more clarity but maybe it's because I'm coming off the Integra with 17 speakers but honestly clarity was okay bass was great in the Maxima I will say that but anyways last thing I want to mention to you guys on the infotainment screen at least is when you do put the Maxima in reverse you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board but also a 360 degree monitor there to the right coming standard for the SR and Platinum trim levels only which is always is going to lead us into safety so first let me start by saying IIHS top safety pick plus which is the very highest rating given by IIHS so that pretty much says it all right there but front side side current airbags do come standard driver and passenger knee airbags up front as well in the back you're going to have latch aka lower anchors and tethers to children for the rear car seats rear child door locks tire pressure monitoring system but also coming standard forward collision warning system autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian detection lane departure warning a blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert rear parking sensors and traffic sign recognition then as well and then if you were to go with the SR Platinum that's going to add to that front and rear parking sensors and intelligent lane intervention then as well so overall when it comes to my final thoughts this is the final year of the Maxima so if you want one if you want a CD player in your car now is your last chance because this is the final chance you have to buy the Maxima but incredible safety on this thing it doesn't get better than an IIHS top safety pick plus excellent braking as well good interior quality on this thing as far as room for improvement goes the CVT always is a bit emotionless so you got that and I think full digital gauge cluster will look pretty darn good in the Maxima as well I know Nissan can do it they have done it on plenty of their other vehicles already but let me know what you guys think of the Maxima in the comment section below and that is about it for this one you guys thank you so much for watching if you're free to follow me on social media on the bottom of the screen if you want to see what's coming next on the channel before it gets to YouTube be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're in your new car reviews because that is what we do here on this channel after all do appreciate you guys watching more than you know I will see you guys all in the next video stay gold


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Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines? Rights Lawyers Call for ICC Probe Into War Crimes by Saudi Red Coalition in Yemen Thai prime minister faces no confidence vote as police crack down on protests Taliban take over Kabul airport after US withdrawal from Afghanistan And in our video section we take a look at the COVID-19 Delta variant and the efficacy of existing vaccines In our first story, the International Criminal Court has been urged to investigate war crimes committed by the Saudi Red Coalition in Yemen The British Bar Association of Laws, or Guernica 37, submitted evidence to the court on August 30th The lawyers represent hundreds of survivors and families of victims in Yemen The group has asked that the ICC investigate three incidents including the 2018 Dahiyaan air strike The Saudi Red attack killed 51 people including 40 children in a school bus Guernica 37 is also referred to a missile strike on a funeral home in Sanaa in October 2016 155 people were killed in over 500 were injured The coalition later stated that the attack had been based on incorrect information The third issue is related to the alleged torched-head murder of civilians being held in prisons in South Yemen Since 2015, the Saudi Red Coalition has carried out nearly 66,000 strikes on Yemen Almost one third of these have been non-military targets, including hospitals, schools, etc. The ongoing war has killed around 233,000 people According to the UN, 5 million people are only one step away from famine Crucial imports, including food, fuel and medicines, are restricted due to the Saudi air and naval blockade Guernica 37 has also asked the ICC to investigate coalition members including Jordan, Senegal and the Maldives It has also asked the court to investigate citizens of Colombia, El Salvador, Panama and Chile They were hired as mercenaries by a US-based contractor on behalf of the UAE In our next story, Thai Prime Minister Prayud Chanochha and Thai Ministers are facing a no-confidence motion in parliament The measure was tabled for debate on Tuesday with a vote in the lower house set for September 4th The debate will cover several issues including the state's pandemic response and corruption This follows months of protests demanding the Prime Minister's resignation Rallies were held across at least five provinces on Sunday with caravans of cars and motorcycles On August 30th, Thailand had recorded 256 deaths in over 15,900 new cases in 24 hours People are demanding better access to vaccines, government funds for pandemic response, etc. Protesters have also raised a long-standing demand for democratic reforms These protests have been met with an increasingly violent crackdown by police Security officials have targeted not only protesters but also journalists and bystanders Routine use of tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets has also been reported Foreign Asia and Human Rights Lawyers Alliance have argued that this is unjustifiable under international law Prachatai reported that at least one protestor had been blinded in one eye A 15-year-old is in critical condition after reportedly being shot with live ammunition Amnesty has also reported at least two other cases of children with gunshot wounds The violent crackdown on protests has been accompanied by the arrest of dozens of protest leaders We read July 2020 and August 2021 at least 800 people have faced criminal charges According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights 374 lawsuits have been filed for joining peaceful protests The charges include sedition, deformation of oil, deformation and violation of emergency provisions Our next story is from Afghanistan where the United States officially withdrew its troops on the night of August 30th This marks an end to the military invasion and occupation of the country after 20 years The withdrawal was completed in compliance with the deadline set under the Doha Agreement The Taliban have now taken control of the Taip Lehput Meanwhile, at least seven Taliban fighters were reportedly killed in the Panjshir province on Monday Members of local militias announced on Tuesday that fighting had occurred at the valley's western entrance Thousands of militia fighters inform army and special forces members are present in Panjshir They are being led by Ahmad Masood who is the son of Muzaedin commander Ahmad Shah Masood The Taliban has been in negotiations with Masood and his allies for two weeks However, as per local reports, phones and internet services to Panjshir have been cut TOLO News reported that the Taliban had also blocked roads leading to the province Taliban has not announced what form the new government will take There have been concerns about the freedom of press amid several reports of journalists being attacked Uncertainty also remains about the rights of marginalized groups including women Meanwhile, one third of the country's population is facing hunger The fighting has also displaced over 570,000 Afghans And for our final story, we take a look at the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic Concerns have grown surrounding the Delta variant which is considered highly transmissible The virus has been detected in at least 132 countries so far According to the WHO, it has spiked low global infections by 80% in four weeks With less than 3% of people vaccinated, deaths surged by 89% in Africa Emerging studies have also shown that the variant can infect fully vaccinated people Here is Dr. Satyajidrat to talk more about the Delta variant and the efficacy of existing vaccines The broad lesson still remains the following All the vaccines which were based on last year's strains still provide excellent protection Against serious illness and death for COVID-19 I am not going to say hospitalization because again the criteria for hospitalization vary But certainly, all the vaccines based on last year's strains Protect against serious illness and death even by this year's Delta-like strains So that is promising What we also know is that the protection against mild illness, infection and transmission Provided by the vaccines appears to be lower for this year's Delta-based strains Compared to that against last year's strains Let us keep in mind that protection against transmission is a quantitative idea It is not a yes no idea So vaccines brought down the transmission efficiency of last year's strains quite a lot Vaccines have brought down the transmission efficiency of this year's Delta-based strains But not by as much as last year's strains So that is the first thing Which means that Delta will spread more slowly amongst vaccinated people Than amongst unvaccinated people But it will still spread at a reasonably fast rate That's the first point The second point is because the increased efficiency of transmission of Delta from person to person Is higher based on the fact that the virus can get into cells more efficiently We can imagine that just as it's easier for the Delta strains To be more transmissible from person to person They're also more transmissible from cell to cell within the same person And if that happens then the likelihood is that the ability of Delta-based strains To cause severe disease is going to be a little bit higher And that's what everybody's finding But it's not that therefore Delta is a lethal virus It's not It's just that instead of say 10% people becoming severely ill 17% people become severely ill So that's the second point And that's where Delta is causing increases but not huge ones In both rates of transmission and likelihood of causing severe disease That's all we have time for today We'll be back tomorrow with more news from around the world Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch


I have a proclamation of recognizing the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center and the San Ramon American Muslim Community for its efforts to provide COVID-19 relief assistance and declaring its appreciation for the contribution of American Muslims to the San Ramon community. And I will be presenting this to Icy Ahmad. Is that Aboushi? Let's bring him in. And I believe we have Nadia and Shahab. Oh, they put you side by side. Okay. After I read the proclamation, then we'll ask if you have some comments and are you going to put it up for me, Christina? Yes. Oh, there we are. Gosh, this technology stuff is great. Now, how do I get rid of this screen over here so that I could? There we go. I have a proclamation of the City Council of the City of San Ramon recognizing the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center and the San Ramon American Muslim Community for its efforts to provide COVID-19 relief assistance and declaring its appreciation for the contributions of American Muslims to the San Ramon community. Whereas San Ramon is home to the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center, which is dedicated to serving the spiritual needs of San Ramon's Muslim community and promoting interfaith cooperation by providing an environment for dialogue, education and fellowship. And whereas the SRVIC has provided many volunteer services to the San Ramon community included, but not limited to the following, providing community assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, partnering with the International Rescue Committee to support newly arriving refugees to the Bay Area and help with apartment setup for families. And you're going to, there we go. And you got to stop moving it. Okay. And providing community assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, partnering with the International Rescue Committee to support newly arriving refugees to the Bay Area and help with apartment setup for families, packing and distributing 100,000 pounds of food staples and masks to at-risk communities in the Bay Area through their You Are Not Alone program in partnership with support life foundations and 47 other Bay Area mosques and organizations. Sponsoring SRVIC blood drives with the American Red Cross, being one of the largest donors to the Contra Costa Food Bank donating 25 to 30,000 every year in addition to the estimated 150,000 in donations to community members in need. And whereas enriched by the unparalleled diversity of its residents, the City of San Ramon takes great pride in supporting individual religious freedoms and is strengthened by the many buried religious, political and cultural traditions and contributions of its diverse population, including those Americans who practice Islam. And whereas Muslims have been part of U.S. history from the beginning and have contributed to the production of wealth and construction of the nation, they are also part of the rich history of the civil rights movement. And whereas almost 10,000 Muslims reside in Contra Costa County and make innumerable contributions to the cultural, political and economic fabric and well-being of the California and United States. And whereas American Muslims are teachers, lawyers, doctors, social workers, tech workers, nurses, and business owners among numerous other valued professions, as well as peace builders, activists, entrepreneurs, and politicians. And whereas the California State Assembly has recognized the month of August 2021 as American Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month. And wow, we got a big one here. And whereas it is appropriate to acknowledge and promote awareness of the myriad of invaluable contributions of American Muslims in California and across the country, and extend to them the respect and camaraderie. Every American deserves. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the City Council of the City of San Ramon does hereby proclaim its appreciation for the efforts of the San Ramon Ballet Islamic Center and the Muslim community to provide assistance to those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The many additional contributions that SRBIC has made to the San Ramon community, the rich history, contributions, and guiding virtues of American Muslims, and to commend all Muslim communities for the lasting positive impact they have made toward the advancements of our city and country. It is September 14, 2021, signed by the worst signature I have seen. I cannot, I've got to work on this signature. Let's bring it back to the full screen. I want to hear from Nadia Ann. Let's hear from you first and then finish with Ahmad, if we may. Thank you, Mayor. Ladies first. Thank you, Mayor. In the name of Allah, most great, most beneficent, and most merciful. Good evening, Mayor Hudson, council members, and everyone. Thank you for the honor of the American Muslim of San Ramon with the proclamation of American Muslim month. The San Ramon Islamic Center was set up more than 25 years ago and has been an active part of the local community. At our center, we have witnessed a generation of American Muslim grew up here locally. They went to school here, they work here, and now they have come here, returned here to, as parents, bringing up their children in this area. In this past challenging year, SRVIC has partnered with support life foundations and others to distribute food to those who are being challenged in this trying times. We have also continued with our blood drive and donated to the food bank. In the last month alone, the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center took the lead and rallied more than $20,000 of resources to help the displaced Afghan persons from Afghanistan. Some of these youth that have grown up here have become entrepreneurs setting up their businesses in the city, contributing to the vibrant business ecosystem of our area. The Muslim doctors, nurses, other healthcare professionals and essential workers such as teachers are doing their part to continue our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic that is in its second year. We have got American Muslim participating in politics in San Ramon and in the Tri Valley too. So once again, we thank you for the honor and together we can make San Ramon the best home for all of us. We wish you a good evening. Thank you Nadia. And we thank you. Is that your, what is behind you? Is that San Ramon? Kind of cool. Thank you. Okay, Yamad, can you add some comments to that? You can't beat the background. No, it can't beat it. So no, I'll just keep it short. I really appreciate you, Mayor Hudson and the City Council members for this acknowledgement. It's some honor to us has been for the last couple of years and continues to be a great honor to be a part of this community. Just a reminder that our mission at the center is to create or develop members who will create positive influence on the community at large. So that's what, you know, what you read the details are kind of the result of what we instill in our members to be good positive members. And the City of San Ramon has been excellent to be a part of it supports diversification. So we're really glad to be part of it. And looking forward to working more with the City Council and Mayor Hudson. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Council members, let's start with the Vice Mayor. Any comments? Oh, you're on mute, but they were good comments. And he's still going. He's still on mute. Oh, Sabina bail him out. Help him out a little bit. We'll go to you. There he is. Now you're good. I want to thank them so much for all the extra effort and help they put in throughout the year during this COVID-19. I've seen them do their their food drives and filling up in the parking lot in the barrels. And I want to thank them so much for all the additional help they provided our community. Thank you. Very well said. Thank you Sabina. One thing here I just wanted to add to it. Thank you Nadia and Imad for everything that you're doing as leaders in the community as well, and especially with the food drives. I know there was a huge need at the peak of the pandemic and there were some seniors who were really hurting and so appreciate everything you do. And do call on upon us if any of us can be there to join you at any of the food drives or the blood drives would be happy to partner with you as well. So thank you. Thank you Shridhar. I want to thank Sanamun Valley Islamic Center and Sanamun American Muslim Community for your 25 years of service to the community. Especially during this pandemic, you know, stepping up and helping the community and the community need the most. Organizations like yours definitely make special about Sanamun and what we are. Once again I would like to extend my support if you need anything from my side please feel free to reach out to me. I can be whatever the way I can help you. So thank you very much for your services. Thank you. Council Member Armstrong. I would also like to extend my thanks to Mr. Ruchi, Ms. Shahad and SRVIC for all that you did all that the local community did during the recent pandemic and the recent events. There's so many good community groups in San Ramon in the local area and plus our individual community members that do so much for others. I think it just helps to restore our faith and reinforce that there's goodness in the people in our community helping others, especially during times of need. So thank you again for all that you've done. Thank you. I think that sums it up pretty much the way everybody feels. Though when you said blood, I'm still a little squeamish about needles. I'll give the food. We'll let them give the blood. Any last words from you before we move on? There's no action today. We could sit here and thank you all night. I'm looking at these numbers and it's quite impressive. Seeing nothing more, I like that sign in the background. Okay, there's no further action being taken on this. Once again, thank you from a grateful community. Thank you.


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So my name is Mike Furlough. I'm the executive director from Hathi Trust and welcome to this session on the Hathi Trust Research Center The subtitle it takes a village clearly indicates that this presentation was proposed before November 8th You may recall a book from the 90s falls flat librarians don't remember books So anyway, my name is Mike furlough again And what we're going to do is we're going to have a tag-temp presentation this morning and then some moderated discussion So I'm going to start us off and then we will follow up. You'll hear from Beth Plaley who's immediately to my left from Indiana University of Bloomington. She is the co-director of the Hathi Trust Research Center Then on her left Stephen Downey from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Stephen is also co-director of the Research Center to his left is John Unsworth now dean of libraries at the University of Virginia and And part of the executive management group for the Research Center and then on the far end we have Robert McDonald from Indiana and Beth Naumachavaya from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign They're going to moderate the discussion at the very end of this session We we decided we would split the speaker fee multiple ways here So that we could each give each some something for Christmas So I will start off with a little bit of background about Hathi Trust and then leading into the research Center the first thing I want to do I Always want to do is remind people that as much as you think of and as we know of a Hathi Trust as a digital library as a collection of Large number of digitized books online. It is first and foremost primarily an organization That is co-owned and co-operated by its members. There are 120 members in Hathi Trust Nearly all of them in North America and most of those in the United States But not exclusively and our role is really a library mission, right? It's the mission to collect and preserve cultural and scholarly heritage for future generations So at the core of what we do is digital preservation. That's absolutely the basis of it But based on that mission and based on that core activity and the aggregation of content that we've been able to accumulate over the last eight to ten years We are able to launch and and and move forward with a number of other Cooperative programs number of range of programs the Hathi Trust Research Center is just one of them a couple I will mention but not go into detail our distributed copyright reviews, right? So among our membership there are about 20 institutions where staff are Looking at the copyright renewal and registration information for works in our collection to determine if they can be opened There is a program underway to establish a shared print network Among Hathi Trust members to ensure that for all the digitized collection There are print copies retained and disclosed as being retained and that we have collection development programs Especially around federal documents right now so the the real power of what we do is not necessarily in providing access which is Valuable and critical, but the power I think of it as really being able to harness the membership for these for these other programs that really can transform how libraries operate and and because we are so large because we have so many members one real value that I have for the organization and that the Organization has is to draw on the distributed strength and expertise of the membership that And not to assume that it's something that could or should only be located at one place But a a set of programs that can be operated at multiple locations So while I am an employee of the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan provides the host administrative hosting and Infrastructure hosting for the research for the preservation and access repository There is a mirror site for the preservation repository at Indiana University There is a metadata management system that's developed and operated by California Digital Library on behalf of Hathi Trust and The research center itself is co-located at the University of Illinois and at Indiana University So I will as I said, we'll just be talking primarily about the research center and in today's session now on this point of the collection I Talked a little bit about how it's not enough just to focus on the collection I think because what we're going to be doing today is talking about making computational access available to this collection I wanted to talk for a minute about its characteristics. So the collection today is just under 15 million volumes I was hoping I was hoping to get to 15 million by the by this meeting But I blame someone who shall remain nameless for not getting their content and in time to time for us to celebrate that But still let's just call it 15 million for for giggles That equates to about 7.4 million unique book titles That uniqueness is based on mark cataloging. So your mileage may vary on how many titles we actually have And within that that accounts for about 5.2 billion pages digitized pages in the collection Now of the collection about 40 percent Usually it's ranging between 30 90 40 percent of the collection is open and available for reading That means it's either public domain or has been licensed for for open access The collection is primarily books the focus of the collection will remain for the foreseeable future primarily digitized or digital books and serials published works But it is not the case that the collection excludes rare books special collections I mean, it's actually a pretty wide range of material that's in in hotty trust However not surprisingly the majority of the collection probably comes from the 20th century and the majority of the collection as you just saw is Is in copyright the The collection this bar graph is trying to give you that picture of date distribution right publication date distribution And then the orange tips on the gray cigarettes here. It's not like a cigarette with it's on fire at the end It's those are actually the orange tips indicate how much of that decades output are open in hotty trust Okay, so not surprising here for a collection that's that's based on digitized works from research library collections in North America The large majority of this comes from second half of the 20th century So a quick comment on the kinds of access that we provide First on let's call it human access or reading access We it's always confusing to people and there's often misinformation about what exactly we provide access to in the collection So I want to just quickly clear that up One thing we do is provide full search full text search as well as bibliographic search of the collection to anybody anywhere in the world Okay, so the entire collection is available for search The entire collection is also available for data mining and computational analysis and we'll talk more about that as the morning goes on and the entire collection that is open That is public domain out of copyright or Creative Commons license is available for reading to any individual without regard to whether They're at a member institution or not Okay, there are some caveats on that if a work is not out of copyright in your country You won't be able to read it in your country Okay, so if the work is public domain in the United States but not elsewhere in the world Then you should only be able to read it in the United States It's public domain outside the world outside in the rest of the world, but not in the US We can't see it here in the US and there are some some several thousand titles like that Then for members members do have some additional access privileges there so they can download those works in full The the most I think that probably the service I am most proud of of all the things that we do is making available the entire collection Regardless of copyright status to users who are blind or print disabled at member institutions, right? So if anyone on your campus has a need for a library book that's in haughty trust and they are eligible according to US law or the law of your country if you're a member then we can work it out so that they can have access Materials in the collection and we have also announced this year a partnership with the National Federation of the Blind to expand that access in the US So more on that will be forthcoming And then the last service around reading access is just replacement access Preservation replacement copies can be made available for works that you have that have gone lost missing damaged Otherwise unusable and are no longer available on the market in a new condition to to quote the US Copyright Act But what we're going to talk about today is this lovely Previously foreign phrase to me non-consumptive research a phrase that I'm not sure really existed or was certainly not in popular parlance in the United States until the Google book settlement in the last decade The the Google book settlement you might recall there was a Google said we're going to scan everything everybody freaked out certain of those everybody sued Google And the authors and the publishers got together and worked with Google to arrange a proposed settlement For their lawsuits and that went through a couple of rounds of hearings and freaking out and ultimately that settlement was rejected But within that proposed settlement there was the concept for Enabling non-consumptive research on the corpus of materials that Google was digitizing and that proposal is In part the genesis of the Hathi trust research center The idea was that there would be multiple at least two research centers There would be one in an academic institution and this phrase non-consumptive research which essentially means Not humans doing stuff on the texts You regardless you know without having to have reading access comes from this Google book settlement And what's interesting here is this phrasing it comes from that time But as as the folks up here will be able to tell you in order to actually run the research center offer services develop The protocols and the processes It's really necessary to think through this phrase and think through what it means and what it means to enable that Non-consumptive research on material that should not be redistributed Because it is in copyright right so we'll talk a lot about that about that challenge this morning So in order to fulfill that non-consumptive Access role one thing that we do at Hathi trust is distribute data sets So if a researcher needs access to data, they want to run the computes in their own environment because they they need that kind of control That's feasible, but we only distribute data if it is out of copyright Or public domain or creative commons to do so and there's two different Data sets we class in there one is Non-Google digitized about a half a million maybe almost 600,000 volumes and then there's a set that's been Google digitized by Google That one I call out separately because in order to gain access to it Google does ask institutions to sign an agreement basically Acknowledging that they're receiving stuff that is in copyright and and it's for use in non-commercial purposes so in planning our research center as I said a few minutes ago this kind of Partly came out of the Google book settlement So we first started talking about that way back in 2008 which was when Hathi trust was founded If anything we were talking about it before Hathi trust was officially launched in 2009 a group of staff from Hathi trust and other partner institutions put together a proposal for a research center Hosted by Hathi trust was submitted to the Hathi trust equivalent of their board of directors at that time And they approved that and based on that there was an RFP for hosting of a research center among the Hathi trust membership that was in 2010 and two proposals from Indiana and Illinois were received to propose to co-host the research center and Based on those proposals the award was made to Illinois and Indiana So I'm gonna stop with this I wanted to lead us through this history of what we do at Hathi trust some basics And then into how we got to the launch of HTRC and I'm going to turn over to Beth playley Who's going to provide some more background on the research center itself and services there great? Good morning everyone? so the It's nice. Nice to be here this close to Christmas Merry Christmas everyone so the Hathi trust research Center is Kind of I think contributing to the overall Mission of Hathi trust in in several ways I think the most well-known contribution that we bring is Grappling with the problem of how one enables Text a data data mining text mining over a set of content That's very large five point two billion pages is large as well as Restricted, you know 60% of the of the content is in public domain So how do you enable that kind of of of interaction by researchers? In a way that doesn't impede their their research Processes but yet protects the data as it needs to be protected So I think that that's been a sizable contribution of ours we do this as You know as user-driven As as we can because part of it is we're pushing the community to think about Analysis, you know digital humanities being an example of community We're pushing a community with capability that they've not really had before so we're trying to stimulate Their understanding of what these questions are While getting feedback from them so that the development that we do can be user-driven development so You we do this through reviews and user studies But we also do it through things like the vignettes that are sitting up here that some of you may have already seen That give examples of of people who have already Defined research questions over large large sets of content And then again we build tools and this again is a collaboration across You know Indiana University, Illinois and Hottie trust on the last couple years have been good years for us We've seen substantial growth in in terms of People who are engaging with the the the products of the Hottie Trust Research Center 923 new users we have a total of over a thousand registered users a Smaller number of data capsule users. I'll show you what the data capsule is in just a moment and a total of 257 institutions Represented amongst our the the user community So the way I like to characterize this Is is through this this cartoon diagram when when a researcher comes to To the Hottie Trust Research Center And and the question that they ask is that of well, which which of the modes of interaction of HTRC are best for my needs and we characterize that into three types of offerings And I would point out that the fact that we're on a slope here from left to right a downward slope from left to right Is is very intentional. I'll come back to that So on the upper left-hand corner, we've got extracted features extracted features Are are pulled out of the content of the books Packaged up in a way that it can be taken Downloaded and analyzed at a researcher's institution. Oh my on here. I didn't see this Okay, that think that think the analysis can can be done Okay, the analysis can be done at the user's Insta the researchers institution the kinds of content in the extractive feature are parts of speech word counts and and whatnot the middle piece is The portal, you know our web tools the user logs into a web interface and here the access is to things like a canned analysis tools And then finally on the right-hand side is Some you know so where the middle is canned analysis tools the right-hand side is my analysis tools So, you know, I don't want to necessarily use a canned algorithms I want to use my own algorithms and I want to apply those directly against the data and the data capsule Provides a protected environment that allows that so the reason for the slope is You know as you go from the upper left to the lower right you get closer to the data and Because of that more restrictions kick in so the data capsule is first of all, it's closer to them You know it's closer to a virtual machine That one has to be more technically astute to use and it also It's also a little harder to use because here again the closer you are to the data the more protection Mechanisms have to kick in so that is so this is how we're characterizing it and there's one notion I want to bring out here also and that is when you go from your own desktop Which is the extracted features on the left-hand side to the other modes Which is the middle mode of the web tools and the right mode of data capsules. There is a A something we call a work set that Represents what you're doing a work set captures both the the content over which your analysis is going to be done And it's really that research lifecycle all the way to the published product is that work set So the work set isn't needed for extracted features because you're doing everything at your desktop But when you start to work in an environment, that's not your environment that works that has to kick in because that works that represents the Researcher you know in that remote setting. That's the research center So the our primary focus of work over the the upcoming year In extracted features we had a recent release of extracted features over a 13.6 million volumes close to the total number of Volumes in in Hottie trust for the web interface We've got a we've got bookworm being added as it as an user interface Analyst visual analysis tool to accessing the content Here I mentioned the work set so the There's work going on on on an improved work set Which is again is the research context and then there's improvements on the data capsules so that it can shift from being From accessing the what was the public domain content to ship to the in copyright content Which is something that we received about it's been about nine months ago now So those can be summarized as follows the the web interface You know the works the one accesses the canned algorithms, which are inspired by monk Access to the data capsule bookworm extracted features are all done through the through the interface and that's again We have to know who you are for for the auditing purposes We need to implement the data capsule in the data capsule one runs your own algorithms Accessing the data directly, but it's it's in a controlled and secured environment to protect the copyrighted content And then the extracted features said 13.7 million put my apologies and it was released in November So what you know so with respect that was more on a technical what we're doing technically You know what we're doing as a center as a whole for 2017 effort Growing demand we've gotten what we think is is You know considerable interest in uptake in in the digital humanities less so in in other domains We think there is a compelling interest in social sciences We think you know Stimulating that need is is you know where something will have a question for you on It's something that I think we have to do in Hottie trust as a whole things like better Characterizing and describing our federal documents. I think is is these kinds of steps have to have to be done before social scientists Given the way they look at content to analyze are comfortable knowing that what they're dealing with is what they want to Research I think so we have some work to do both in terms of you know, stimulating the computational need but also Putting the conceptual Organization in place so that social scientists know what's there And can grapple with it in the way they think about it and and Laura embarrassed you so, you know Someone who comes in and does research with us should There should be an efficient process From the time they submit most of our our interest comes in through our ACS program Which Steven will talk about from the moment they get an approved advanced collaborative support award until they get their results That whole process needs to be made more efficient than it is right now There are stalls in that process that we need to work on so when I say Lowering our barriers to his news. It's not just you know the the human computer interface to our tools It's making sure that our processes as a center are as efficient as possible So that we're not impeding a research process and there's there's work that needs to be done And this needs to be done not only for you know What we were canonically characterizing the the researcher with small needs Which is a thousand volumes or less and the researcher with large needs Which is a million volumes around that that's how we're characterizing for both of those canonical groups and then finally The and this is for all three use modes and that that's the pictorial diagram that I gave you the the web tools the expected features in the data Capsule and then finally we're we're engaging in partner up partnering opportunities. I won't say much about that because John will talk about that, but the last item there is developing a cost model for for In-kind contributions and when I say contributions, it's not like anybody's you know throwing throwing resources at at How do you trust is as a whole but but how can you know? How can how do you trust and in the research center take advantage of? Resources as they exist at other institutions, and I'm thinking compute resources is the most obvious So that we become more of a community community Sustained organization over time and that's a that's that that's a I think an important aspect for sustainability and then finally some of this work is is being done through a grant from the generous grant from the Mellon Foundation Where we are Enhancing the works at builder. It's it's it's now a link data representation with a search interface that is much better than what we had before And each using solar on the back end and then we're working on Deeper integration of that work set in and out of the data capsule particularly for the large-scale data with a focus on both digital humanities and Linguistics computational linguistics and working on the in copyright content. So those I think are are are critical Steps for the for both the work set and the and the data capsule So I'll leave it at that and turn this over to Steven Downey. So Steven Good morning, everyone And thanks. Thank you very much for coming today What I want to speak to next is some of the realization of what is happening So we have the we have the data marvelous data. We have the hardware We have the networks of systems the staff in place so what is the outcome of some of this and One program that we have it's an ongoing Perpetual program that we have as part of the research center. It's called advanced collaborative support And this is us reaching out to the community and providing resources meant person power compute power the data to help stimulate and prototype classic digital humanities text data mining projects we've been running it as a series a short series of peer reviewed kind of submissions where we get applications where RFP goes out and then Small proposals about seven or eight pages with the research question Are submitted to us and we review them and then we assign a staff programmer some and staff librarians whatever the proper set of Facilities and personnel to help them prototype their project And so in round one in 2015 we had these various Projects that were took place. So we had detecting literary plagiarism the case of Oliver Goldsmith So analyzing the text to see whether the text data mining algorithms could actually detect Where our hero Oliver Goldsmith actually lifted his His tax he was famous for it and actually was famous for doing it across languages Which is really kind of an interesting plagiarism problem Then we have literary geography at scale Matthew Wilkins at Notre Dame one thing. I'm really proud of this Is that that little project was flipped into an NEH grant, which is now a long-term research project of professor Wilkins Then we had at Indiana University a marvelous Study on how to look at the topics inside books not on the outside on the inside of the literature So we get finer grade topic modeling of the literature. I found that really exciting a group of Very wide group of folks mostly from Canada led by our Canadian friends Trace of theory looking at the evolution of the notion of theory in the literature and then tracking technology diffusion over time With Michelle Alexopoulos who's actually an economist and looking at the notion of steam power and how that got talked about from its inception To now and it's a really fascinating very worthwhile study using the resources that we have in this fantastic collection So one thing if you're interested in these projects, we do have up here these vignettes So got the one of them. They're all describing some of these projects We invite you to come and take them with you So the ACS projects for round two We're now looking at some other Research going on we have a scholar right now looking at the notion of yellow fever in the Caribbean and finding all the texts to discuss the notion of sanitation and the confluence of Yellow fever then we have someone is tracing the history of creativity and that's at Brown Then we have a PhD student actually as part of their thesis work trying to figure out What does the influence of the Chicago School of? Architecture and finding that examples of that from the literature and then finally I think one of the more fun ones is the single to noise Study where they're a comparison comparing texts romantic text Walter Scott versus Jane Austin And looking for stylistic differences and similarities between those two and those are ongoing right now And we'll be having another RFP in the new year to take advantage of our In more of our in copyright data, so we will spam the usual lists and reach out to your your Organizations because we are interested in helping the community as best we can So part of this outreach Which is really important so we've talked about the notion of technologies and data capsules and web portals and and big disk and big data one thing I'm really proud of Coming from the the former graduate school of library information science and now the school information sciences at Illinois I have a proud library tradition and we really and truly believe that one of our more important interfaces Is the library writ large? It's going beyond just the technology. It's actually the outreach represented by the librarians active librarians in our various institutions So we we work closely with scholarly commons and digital humanities centers to create these outreach programs And we do a lot of user needs assessment With gathering information from folks some of you actually we've talked to in this room To find out what your users and what your clients are actually needing what where are the gaps that we can fill We've done. We're looking at social sciences. We've done a stronger We have a stronger background in digital humanities and now we're reaching out to our social science communities And also we are looking to train librarians train Staff in our various tools whether it be the portal whether it be our thing that we call the work set builder Whether we call it bookworm bookworms are very fun tool to use the data capsule and actually in reaching those communities at the right level So whether it's an undergrad beginner to a PhD advanced person We have we're targeting tailor-made outreach programs through the scholarly commons one of our great sort of outreach endeavors right now is being funded by the IMLS is being led by Harriet Green at Illinois and the one thing I really Really like about this because it puts the rubber on the road so to speak it is digging deeper reaching further libraries empowering users to mind the Hardy Trust digital library it's a nice mix of Participatory institutions, so we have large-scale institutions Indiana Illinois, North Carolina Northwestern that we get into smaller institutions For example Lafayette College, and it's a train the trainer program We will be probably reaching out to some of you in the very near future to start placing some of our train-to-training programs In your institutions, and they do a fantastic job, and we have two more years. Is that correct Robert on the Beth yeah two more years, so we're now we're ramping up, and we'll be reaching out to you And your your various communities to get your staff More familiar to be the interface for the Hardy Trust Research Center, and it's at that point now I'm going to turn the podium over to John Unsworth Thanks, Stephen. Good morning so my unofficial Title at the Hathi Trust Research Center is chief schmoozing officer CSO and I'm in charge of finding us partnerships and and building those into Something that makes the Hathi Trust Research Center sustainable This has been something that I've been thinking about since I started working on this project back in 2008 Because it's obvious that running this kind of infrastructure has some significant fixed costs and that you know while we could recover some of those through partnership with the Hathi Trust and Deriving some income from membership fees. We could also recover some of these from partnerships with researchers and getting some of our costs written into grant budgets that beyond that we still needed Something more that would just be a predictable source of support for the for the enterprise So that's one dimension of partnerships Another dimension of partnerships is that if we're successful in what we're doing in the HTRC I think we will develop an app an Environment in which researchers partner with each other and collaborate and In part of what we're thinking about is how to build support for data communities and for The work that they do and the tools that they use The data capsule already envisions bringing tools from outside Communities into our computational environment and trying to do that in a secure way And I don't think that the only people who might be interested in Putting Tools in this environment are other universities and clearly we're already seeing Publishers developing these tools and I think shifting their notion of their business in some quarters of scholarly publishing at least Away from the production of content and towards the production of research services and platforms So I actually see the the HTRC as a potential inflection point for this change that's coming and maybe the best case for the scholarly community to Change the balance of power here a little bit and I'm going to explain a little bit more about that If you're doing text mining It's much better to have everything that you're interested in mining in one place It's difficult to do distributed text mining and get results from here and results from here and results from here using You know data that might be a little bit differently prepared and tools that might operate a little bit differently in different environments And aggregate those results and be confident that what you're getting is what you thought you got So Kola co-located content certainly makes it easier for researchers and arguably produces better results there is a study the first part of Some consulting that I'm commissioning on this subject just came in on December 7th from Tony Tracy Tony worked for portico for a long time and is a publishing consultant now and she's working with us on Doing a sort of survey of the text data mining landscape out there What's out there now for services who's offering them? What do they charge for them? You know what kind of shape did they take and then she'll be working further with us to do more in-depth Conversations with libraries and with publishers about how how they think services in this area should develop The business case for publishers For co-locating content with the HTRC is not I think particularly difficult to make a lot of publishers now as Tony's study shows our Preparing data sets for researchers and in some cases charging, but they don't post prices So you can't tell exactly what they're charging But they do sometimes Charge for assembling those data sets and even that probably doesn't cover their costs because they're taking people off of other Jobs pulling these data sets by hand And then they ship the data sets to the researchers I'm sure with an agreement that says that the researcher will destroy the data once the research is done And there's no enforcement of that So they have no real surety that You know their data once shipped will be used as it's supposed to and Whatever's done with it is invisible to them Unless results are published in some journal at the end of the process So I think we can offer a better business proposition in HTRC in a secure environment Where what researchers do with their content is audited and and visible to the people who provide the content Where an 18th century researcher? Let's say would have access not only to the 18th century data sets that the publisher provides, but to literally millions of pages of 18th century literature, which is In many cases Well the 18th century primary literature no, but 18th century scholarship in copyright and Unavailable to those publishers through licensing schemes. So I think we have a Case that's makeable to publishers that it would be in their interest to to participate the business case for libraries is an interesting one Brendan Butler who works for me at the University of Virginia library makes a strong case that When libraries license content they license the right to text mine that content And I believe that he's correct He argues against specifically negotiating that right because That gives it the status of something that might be in question But I think the case for libraries begins with what happens when you get the data set and you hand it to the researcher If the researcher is capable of taking it from there, then maybe that's fine But as we see more of this work being done in Newly data-centric disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences I think that's not going to be the case and I think the business case for libraries is about support If you hand a data set to a researcher, they and they don't know what to do with it. They will be back on your doorstep shortly So we're we're looking at this set of issues in the context of a pilot project Which we've been discussing since the last CNI where the discussion began With portico and J store and the idea is to get some of the publishers that they work with To agree to co-locate some content in the secure environment That we run and to have us look at what kinds of issues are raised by trying to normalize data across these different streams and by trying to Bring tools to bear that may have been developed outside our environment So that that work is underway now The great advantage of working with J store and portico on a pilot such as this is that they already aggregate publisher relationships, so They have agreements with lots of publishers. They know those people. They they have a trust relationship It's much easier for us to work with them as partners than to try to establish relationships with each of these publishers and I think it gives us a way to talk to publishers about sustainability strategies in a larger context of their other business relationships and Finally, I think in this pilot what we're looking at is you know If we do think that this in the future will be an environment where people outside, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan are bringing tools to bear What do we do in terms of API's in terms of some of the fundamental affordances like the work set builder to make this a level playing field So that the best tools can rise to the top which again, I think would be in the interest of scholars So those are some future challenges that we're looking at We have some other known future challenges I think competing and collaborating in a mixed for-profit non-profit environment is Definitely right up there and that's you know, we'll be cautiously looking or you know at the dimensions of that in this pilot Building robust data communities. I mentioned that earlier as a goal Discovery services for work sets and results part of collaborating in this environment will be understanding what other people have already done there And whether it would be of use to you Or whether you need to start over Contributing improved machine readable text to the Hathi trust itself as a lot of work gets done on the text in this environment and Many cases that text will be improved. This has been a known issue since we started talking about this There really isn't at this point a way to feed that back upstream to the Hathi trust. It's not a technical problem it's it's a sequencing or editorial problem and Finally the vetting of research results right now research results coming from the copyrighted data are human reviewed To make sure that we're not releasing text that could be Large enough to constitute a conflict with the copyright situation There I'm sure that there are ways to do some if not all of this review computationally I think that's a problem in cryptography Basically, I think the question is can this particular data set be reverse engineered into the text that it came from and I'm betting that there are some computational solutions to to that problem We invite you to get in touch there's an email address up at the top of the box there We invite you to get involved Keep an eye out for the next advanced collaborative support call share that with your researchers help us identify especially social science researchers at this point with an interest in the Hathi trust and Encourage your users to join the monthly user group meeting and last but not least Thanks to our sponsors And I think at this point I'm turning it over to the mic at the end for discussion