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Libr 582: Digital images and text collections Integrated digital collections Lynn Copeland March 15 2011
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http://www.vam.ac.uk/
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http://virtualmuseum.ca
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1 To present our cultural and scientific heritage in its bilingual and multicultural variety to our citizens and to the world, and to develop a comprehensive plan to provide Canadians with enduring digital access to that heritage. MISSION
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10 Build an open content collaboration with no requirement to transfer content ownership or rights. Ensure maximum public access with respect for copyright, including free and open access to public domain and public sector content. Reflect Canada’s fundamental values such as bilingualism, multiculturalism, inclusiveness, equity. Promote internationally-recognized standards and best practices. Guiding Principles
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9 Digitize the Canadian Documentary Heritage Create a Preservation Network Facilitate enduring online Access Our Goals 9
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17 Preservation Network of Trusted Digital Repositories Provincial Discovery Portals National Discovery Portals Mobile Digitization – bring production to collections Mass-digitization Centres – for very large collections Digital Collection Builder – making collections accessible Access to Tools and Services
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11 Promote digitization, preservation and access Organize pan-Canadian collaboration among memory institutions Expand membership and engage all sectors Support fundraising to achieve objectives Facilitate Public Private Partnerships Promote standards, policies and processes for an integrated national preservation and access network Share expertise, tools and capacity Consolidate delivery to realize economies of scale, to reduce costs and to grow online content faster Objectives
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4. History of Canadiana 17 1978199720052008 CIHMECOAlouette Canada Canadiana 90k titles 15M pages Digitize CIHM 57. 5K titles, 3.2 M pages, 250K pages/year 40% OA Subs (CRKN+) UA CARL Aggregation, Access Merger ++
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8 Conservative estimate Source, Canada Online Scope White-paper, 2007 The Canadian Corpus Type of materialCorpus Books (titles)2,000,000 Books on fiche95,000 Serials (titles)150,000 Federal & Provincial government documents (items) 1,000,000 Newspapers (microfilm reels)380,000 Theses (titles)300,000 Music (songs)1,380,000 Radio broadcasts (hours)600,000 Film, Video & TV (hours)4,400,000 Maps (items)2,500,000 Art, Photography & Portraiture (items)26,440,000
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Comments/questions? Lynn Copeland copeland@sfu.ca
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