The HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) is one of the largest digital libraries in the world, containing seventeen million volumes from the collections of major academic and research libraries. In this paper, we discuss the HTDL’s potential for musicology research by providing a bibliometric analysis of the collection as a whole, and of the music materials in particular. A series of case studies illustrates the kinds of musicological research that may be conducted using the HTDL. We highlight several opportunities for improvement and discuss promising future directions for new knowledge creation through the processing and analysis of large amounts of retrospective data. The HTDL presents significant new opportunities to the study of music that will continue to expand as data, metadata and collection enhancements are introduced.

HathiTrust数字图书馆（HTDL）是世界上最大的数字图书馆之一，藏有来自主要学术和研究图书馆的1,700万册。在本文中，我们通过对整个馆藏，尤其是对音乐资料的文献计量分析，来讨论HTDL在音乐学研究中的潜力。一系列案例研究说明了可以使用HTDL进行的音乐学研究。我们重点介绍了一些改进的机会，并讨论了通过处理和分析大量回顾性数据来创造新知识的有希望的未来方向。HTDL为音乐研究提供了重要的新机遇，随着数据，元数据和收藏增强的引入，HTDL将继续扩展。