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NASA digitization of photos and videos
NASA photo, video collection to be digitized, Digital Silence (August 27, 2007)
NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers.
NASA selected Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization, as a partner for digitizing and distributing agency imagery through a competitive process. The two organizations are teaming through a non-exclusive Space Act agreement to help NASA consolidate and digitize its imagery archives using no NASA funds.
"We're dedicated to making all human knowledge available in the digital realm," said Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and founder of Internet Archive.
More interesting details at the above link.
Continue readingUniv. of Pittsburgh to Digitize EU Delegation Collection
The following message was sent to the EURODOC listserv by Phil Wilkin, Social Sciences Bibliographer and Editor of the Archive of European Integration at the University of Pittsburgh. Very good news!
The Delegation of the European Commission to the US, Washington, DC, recently decided to divulge itself of its entire depository collection and award it to 1 of the existing depository libraries in North America. The Delegation awarded this collection to the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, currently the home of the Archive of European Integration (AEI). This depository collection begins in the early 1950s and is easily the largest EU collection in the Western Hemisphere. Over the next several years, the AEI will digitize many documents from this collection and upload them.Continue reading
Digitized Newspapers: New from LoC and Other Resources
Over on our ResourceShelf.com site we've recently posted on several newspaper and book digitization projects. Here's info (and of course, links) to a couple of them. New today (official launch tomorrow night) is the debut of the Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers database and directory from the Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities. The project (beta release) includes over 260,000 digitized newspaper pages and a nicely structured and searchable directory of newspaper info back to 1790.
Newspapers in the public domain from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910 are part of the database. More content to come. You can also find information about specific newspapers back to 1690.Next, we are happy to report that it's once again easy (no registration required) to access the FREE "special collections" from NewspaperARCHIVE.com. These collections contain the full text and full images of thousands of digitized newspaper pages. Delivered as PDF files. Not only keyword searchable but many collections offer browsable timelines. Btw, full text access to a large portion of the entire NewspaperARCHIVE database (over 60 million pages) remains available to K-12 schools and public libraries at NO CHARGE. More here! Btw, the current list of free special collections includes the following topics: + Abraham Lincoln + AIDS + Asbestos + Chocolate Wars Content Coming Soon. + Earthquakes + FBI + Global Warming + Holocaust + Immigration + Kennedy Assassination + Martin Luther King, Jr. + Outlaw + Pro Baseball + Ronald Reagan + San Antonio, Texas + September 11 + Space Program + Target America + Hurricanes + Pearl Harbor + Terrorism + Titanic + Tornado + Winter Games Continue reading
Technology and Policy Issues With Acquiring Digital Collections
We recently mentioned a couple of articles about digitizing print materials (Mass Digitization of Books, 2006-12-23). Now there is a new article on LLRX.com that echoes some of the same issues brought up in those earlier articles.
- Technology and Policy Issues With Acquiring Digital Collections By Roger V. Skalbeck and Iva M. Futrell, LLRX.com, February 12, 2007.
Skalbeck and Futrell outline some key issues:
- How will people access a new service?
- Is a link to the digital collection’s website sufficient?
- How can people find out about a new service?
- How should a law firm assess overall costs?
- What is protected by copyright?
- What does the access contract cover?
- When and how can you charge clients?
- Should a client pay more for a poorly-designed system?
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Mass Digitization of Books
Given the Government Printing Office's intention to "digitize a complete legacy collection of tangible U.S. Government publications" (GPO's Digitization and Preservation Initiatives) and the mass digitization of books that the Google Books Library Project and the Open Content Alliance and others are doing, this is a good time to read Karen Coyle's excellent overview of mass digitization.
- Mass Digitization of Books by Karen Coyle. The Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 32, Issue 6 , November 2006, Pages 641-645 [subscription required]
- Mass Digitization of Books by Karen Coyle. [Preprint]
Coyle notes that "Google has clearly stated that their book project is solely aimed at providing a searchable index to the books on library shelves. They are quite careful not to promise an online reading experience...." and says that "we have little idea how the digitized books will be used." She then raises some important questions:
...who does this digitized library serve? How does it serve users? How will the system respond when there are ten million books in a database and a user enters the query “civil war� ...Will some users read these books online in spite of the relative inconvenience of their formats and the computer screen's technology? Will it be possible to use the digitized pages to produce something more e-book like?
In a related article, (An ATM for books, By Emily Maltby, FORTUNE Small Business Magazine, December 14 2006) Maltby describes Espresso - a $50,000 vending machine that is "nearly consumer-ready" that will debut in ten to 25 libraries and bookstores in 2007. "The machine can print, align, mill, glue and bind two books simultaneously in less than seven minutes." All this sounds very similar to the Internet Archive Bookmobile.
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