1. Significant Digitization Projects
IODE OceanTeacher course, Preservation of Books and other Media
Oostende, Be. May 21-25, 2012
Linda Pikula, NOAA and IODE GEMIM

2. Large Scale Digitization Projects
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database.[1] The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October Google's Library Project, also now known as Google Book Search, was announced in December 2004.

3. Google Books Controversy - copyright
*They retain the rights to scanned items
Users outside the United States can however access a large number of public domain books scanned by Google using copies stored on the Internet Archive.[5]
From Wikipedia

4. Internet Archive:
Internet Archive and Yahoo- available through Internet Archive and the Open Library
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge".[2][3] It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive was founded by Brewster Kahle in It is a member of the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium).
** They do not retain the rights to items scanned.

5. Internet Archive:
The Archive allows the public to both upload and download digital material to its data cluster, and provides unrestricted online access to that material at no cost. The Archive also oversees one of the world's largest book digitization projects

6. Open Library
The Open Library is another project of the Internet Archive.
The site seeks to include a web page database for every book ever published, a sort of open source version of WorldCat. It holds 23 million catalog records of books, in addition to the full texts of about 1,600,000 public domain books, which are fully readable and downloadable.[10][11]
Open Library is a free/open source software project, with its source code freely available on the Open Library site.

7. Microsoft Live Search Books 2006- closed 2008 750,000 books digitized
Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto , Sloan Foundation and others

9. Biodiversity Heritage Library
Botanical Literature Goes Global: The Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library, a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).

10. Hathi Trust http://www.hathitrust.org/
Welcome to the Shared Digital Future
HathiTrust is a bold idea with big plans
HathiTrust
is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than sixty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide. 

11. RECLAIM project
Recovery of logbooks-International Journal of Climate 31: (2011)
International effort to encourage recovery through imaging of archived marine weather observations from many different countries.
Project since
Marine Meteorological Data recovery

13. RECovery of Logbooks And International Marine data (RECLAIM) Project
RECLAIM Home Background and Scope Meetings National Results Chile UK US Selected Bibliography Contact Points Additional Links Historical ships' logbooks, some from as early as the 17th century, are now being explored as an important source of additional climatic data. US and European scientists are working together to make the images, data, and metadata available on-line.
Project aim: A cooperative international project to locate and image historical ship logbooks and related marine data and metadata from archives across the globe, and to digitize the meteorological and oceanographic observations for merger into the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) and for utilization for climate research. The project seeks to provide expert guidance and assistance to data rescue projects, concerning national archive holdings, and the content and characteristics of their marine records, historical observational practices, and metadata.
Marine Data Rescue (pdf; 1.1MB)

14. NOAA Climate Data Modernization Project 200-2011
Historic weather, climate, and ocean observations from as far back as the mid-1700s are being made easily available on the Internet for use in
studying global climate variability and change and for helping to improve mitigation and response. The (NOAA) Climate Database Modernization Program
(CDMP) began in 2000 with a major emphasis on imaging and keying worldwide climate and environmental records from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Examples of documents and data digitized under this project. Project closed 2011.

15. ASFA and IAMSLIC
Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts partner with International Association of Marine and Aquatic Science Libraries and Information Centers to provide small digitization grants Articles are linked in Aquatic Commons repository for easy access

16. ASFA, IAMSLIC and Aquatic Commons (repository)
Records from ASFA input libraries are linked to the records in Aquatic Commons records to provide online access to marine and aquatic literature full text through the ASFA citation database (a ProQuest product)
Database is distributed to participating countries free or for a small fee depending on country qualifications

17. European Projects: Europeana Includes articles on Oceanography
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.

18. JISC – UK http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
How do we champion digital technology?
JISC offers leadership and support to UK educational organizations at a local, national and international level
- provides resources, knowledge and expertise that colleges and universities would struggle to source individually due to cost and resource
force behind major shared services which are responsive, agile and fit for purpose in a rapidly changing environment. We provide access to the world-class Janet(UK) network, quality and cost-effective digital resources and a range of specialist advisory services
- innovation programs and projects

19. BIONE
BioOne is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
171 full text online titles from 129 publishers

20. JSTOR
JSTOR archives and provides access to archival and current issues of more than 1,400 scholarly journals across more than 50 academic disciplines.

21. AMS Journals
American Meteorological Society retrospective conversion of all journal publications
For a number of years, all AMS journal volumes older than five years have been available online free of charge. Effective January 2010, however, users will need to pay for access to just the current year and previous two years worth of content. In other words, any journal volume older than two years will be freely available.

22. PORTICO
Future research requires access to the findings of the past. This access cannot be assured without reliable long-term preservation of scholarly digital content. Portico’s approach to digital preservation is comprehensive—combining long-term content management and organizational commitment with a philosophical dedication to addressing the needs of tomorrow’s scholars

23. Portico
Participating Publishers 147 (on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations)
Participating Libraries 741
Committed E-Journal Titles 12,913
Committed E-Book Titles 129,781
Committed D-Collections 46

24. Portico Participants Who Participates in Portico?
Publishers and libraries all around the world are partnered with Portico. Portico one of the leading digital preservation services in the world.
Participating Libraries
741 libraries from 14 countries around the globe participate in Portico as part of their digital preservation strategy.
Number of Participating Libraries 741
Number of US Libraries 370
Number of Non-US Libraries 371

25. Wider Access to Marine Science Digitization Projects
Online Repositories can provide wider access to your collections
OceanDocs (IODE)
Aquatic Commons (IAMSLIC)
Your own repository online

26. Regional Projects - Class
Cuba
Jamaica
Vietnam
Ghana – Africa?
Seychelles
Namibia
Latvia
Ukraine

27. Regional Projects-cont
Kenya
Mauritius
Pakistan