1. Internet Archive & OPENLIBRARY.ORG
Large-Scale Digital Initiatives Colby College Libraries, Waterville, Maine – 2/24/12

2. Internet Archive

3. Internet Archive Non-profit founded to build an “Internet Library”
Preservation of information is primary mission
Goal is to avert the “Digital Dark Age”
Many Projects:
Wayback Machine
Audio Collections (including trade-friendly bands!)
Moving Images
Software
Ebooks and Texts: OpenLibrary.org

4. IA Digital Bookmobile

5. IA Ebook and Text Archive
3,240,661 items divided across multiple collections
American Libraries: 1.6 million items
Canadian Libraries: 360k items
Universal Library (Million Books Project): 106k items
Community Texts: 132k items
Project Gutenburg: 37k items
Children’s Library: 3k items
Biodiversity Heritage Library: 64k items

6. Ebook and Text Archive

7. Ebook and Text Archive

8. Ebook and Text Archive All content is free in multiple formats
PDF
EPUB
Kindle (MOBI)
Daisy
Full Text
DjVu
Vast majority pre-1923
Some content is creator supplied

9. IA and Preservation Digital Preservation Physical Preservation
Multiple formats generated for each digitized object
Automated backup and integrity checks
Format Migration
Extensive Metadata (descriptive/use/preservation)
Physical Preservation
Plan is for over 10 million physical volumes
Retrieval is limited (items are boxed and stacked)

10. Ebook and Text Archive Funding Corporate Sponsors Partner Libraries
Microsoft
Yahoo!
Sloan Foundation
Partner Libraries
Individual Libraries (many ARL)
Consortial Partners
Boston Library Consortium
University of California System
CARLI (Illinios)
Lyrasis

11. Ebook and Text Archive Book Submission Process(es)
Library Partners
Content Creators
Individuals
Partner Libraries
Process(es)
Scribe Workstation
Local Scanning
Distributed Proofreading Team

12. Open Library Goal is “One web page for every book ever published”
Giant Catalog: 20 million records from large catalogs and single contributions
Links to internal items, external sources
N.B. “The Internet Archive and OCLC have discussed working together, and hopefully this will yield a joint project, but nothing has been finalized yet. The plans for Open Library have been actively shared with OCLC and its records are available to OCLC. “
“Secondary goal” – get user as close to the document as possible
Built as an “Open” project
“open” software
“open” data
“open documentation”
“open contribution”

13. Scribe Machine

14. Open Library

15. Open Library’s Secondary Goal
Linksto over 1,000,000 free ebook titles – mostly Internet Archive pre-1923
Lending Library
200,000 digitized ebooks
Post-1923 in copyright works
One book-one user model
Physical items archived post-scanning
Maine State Library on behalf of whole state is a partner

16. Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

17. Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

18. Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

19. Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

20. Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

21. Open Library – Send books!
Libraries in Maine are invited to send books for digitization
imprints
Items are NOT returned
First book is free, subsequent books are ~$40
Libraries do NOT need to sign contract or MOU
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