The Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Existing Technologies for the Digital Public Library of America

The Shoulders of GiantsLeveraging ExistingTechnologies for theDPLADPLA Technical MeetingLibrary of CongressWashington, DC Martin R. Kalfatovic / 14 June 2011

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What Descartes did was a good step. Youhave added much several ways, andespecially in taking the colours of thin platesinto philosophical consideration. If I haveseen a little further it is by standing on theshoulders of Giants. - Issac Newton, 1676

Google estimates about130,000,000 booksSmithsonian collections137,000,000 objects, specimens, artifactsNational ArchivesBillions of documents

100 characters (Western Europeanlanguages, plus spaces and somepunctuation)Each line has 50 spacesEach page is 40 lines longEach book is 500 pages longTotal Books: 100 1,000,000Googolplex: 1 followed by a googol(10100) zeros

Vast … but not infinite

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What existing collections are there?What are the proven technologiesEncourage "boutique" and "cottage" scanning at local levels to augment mass scanning Denver Art Museum & Denver Public Library

Digitizing Vendors

Digitizing Partners

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The Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Existing Technologies for the Digital Public Library of America

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