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“An alarmingly casual indifference to accuracy and authenticity.” What we know about digital surrogates

March 1, 2015 / 5 Comments on “An alarmingly casual indifference to accuracy and authenticity.” What we know about digital surrogates

In a new article in Portal, Diana Kichuk examines the reliability and accuracy of digital text extracted from printed books in five digital libraries: the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, the HathiTrust, Google Books, and the Digital Public Library of America. She focuses particularly on the accuracy and utility of the digital text for reading in […]

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Digital Surrogate Seal of Approval: a Consumer-oriented Standard

April 10, 2013 / Leave a comment

"The Digital-Surrogate Seal of Approval: a Consumer-oriented Standard." James A. Jacobs, University of California San Diego and James R. Jacobs, Stanford University. D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2013, Volume 19, Number 3/4. Also available in the Stanford Digital Repository and the University of California Escholarship Repository. Abstract Continue reading →

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The Digital-Surrogate Seal of Approval

March 16, 2013 / Leave a comment

[Update: The article is also available in the Stanford Digital Repository and the University of California Escholarship Repository.] James and I are happy to announce that our new article appears in the current edition of D-Lib Magazine:

In the last few years, there have been a series of articles, reports and proposals that rely on the promises of digitization to address issues of physical space, cost control, access, and collection management for FDLP libraries. One of the reasons we created this Seal of Approval standard is to provide a clear, consistent way to help evaluate some of these promises of digitization. Continue reading →

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