See also DRAFT: Alma workflow for sending material to Google for scanning (2024-)
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Background
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More information is available at Online links in HOLLIS search results (Library Catalog scope)
How HathiTrust handles our metadata
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Hathi has a redirect script in place that should keep links fresh even if there is a new record ID. It keeps track of the OCN and recordID changes to mitigate as much as possible the potential for dead links in user catalogs and third party indices, or even in papers and dissertations.
Reporting on Google, HathiTrust, and Harvard
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Detailed reporting is available in HART, including data from Google and HathiTrustsee the "Google Library Inventory (GLIB)" section of the HART wiki. A Dashboard has been created to make reporting easier, 'Google Library Inventory Items."
If the item was sent to Google for scanning, but was later removed from Google's tracking database (GRIN) due to an unusable scan, it will not appear in the Dashboard.
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- Google can now improve or fix some bad scans due to ongoing image processing improvements. For issues where the image is warped or has crooked pages; repeated or out-of-order pages; poor image quality or color; scanner's hands/scanning mechanism present in the scan; or poor resolution, contact:
- Google: Choose the "Report a quality issue with a book" option on the Library Partners: Contact us form. Remember to include the link to the record in their system, i.e., "https://books.google.com/books?vid=HARVARD:[Harvard barcode in all caps]"
- Updates made to scans in Google will eventually be harvested by Hathi.
- If the Google scan is better than the Hathi scan, you can write to HathiTrust: Write to support@hathitrust.org, so the Digital Object Quality Corrections team can try to improve the scans. Remember to include the link to the record in their system, i.e., "https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.[Harvard barcode lowercase]"
- I the image cannot be fixed and/or the problem affects the user's ability to access the complete content, we may want to discontinue linking to the resource entirely. Google may be able to remove the scan from its database, but there is no process for HathiTrust to do so at this time. If a scan is cannot be improved and is unusable:
- Report it to LTS so that a note can be added in HART. LTS will add a note indicating that a scan is bad, and will remove the FIG holding from Alma.
- Google can now improve or fix some bad scans due to ongoing image processing improvements. For issues where the image is warped or has crooked pages; repeated or out-of-order pages; poor image quality or color; scanner's hands/scanning mechanism present in the scan; or poor resolution, contact: