The document discusses mass digitization efforts of special collections by various organizations including Google, the Internet Archive, and university partnerships. It compares the approaches of Google, which scans books off-site at a rate of 3,000 books per day, and the Internet Archive's Open Content Alliance (OCA), which scans 1,000 books per week in-house. The document also mentions partnerships between the OCA and universities to digitize collections, as well as a NASA agreement for the Internet Archive to digitize NASA imagery.

1. More Product, Less Process:
Mass Digitization of
Special Collections
Mary W. Elings
Archivist for Digital Collections
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley
Museum Computer Network Annual Conference - Chicago 2007

2. Internet Archive/OCA
Scribe Scanning Station

3. Comparing the Players...
• Google
– all books
– scanning off-site
– human-assisted
scanners
– 3000 books/day
– funded internally
– some restrictions on
access to full library
• OCA
– only public domain
– scanning in-house
– human-assisted “scribe”
scanners
– 1000 books/week
– funded externally/partners
– full, open access to entire
library

4. Contracts and Agreements
• Karen Coyle’s assessment of the University
of Michigan and University of California
contracts with Google:
http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2006/08/dotted-line.html

5. The Modern Student…
ARNOLD ROTH, New Yorker (February 5, 2007)

6. How is this changing standards?
• JPEG2000 instead of TIFF as master file
• OCR plain text instead of TEI encoding
• PDF acceptable format
Note: these standards are also in use by other
digitization efforts such as the
National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/

7. PARTNERSHIPS...

9. OCA: Sloan Funded Collections
• Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley: Key
primary texts documenting the California Gold Rush and Western
expansion.
• Boston Public Library: The John Adams collection, which is the
complete personal library of the Founding Father, lifelong book
collector and second President of the United States.
• The Getty Research Institute: Major collection of books on art and
architecture and an alternate collection on the performing arts.
• Johns Hopkins University Libraries: The James Birney Collection
of Anti- Slavery materials

10. The new content...

11. Materials to be digitized...

12. NASA and Internet Archive
• Space Act
– to develop a massive online archive of photography,
film and video from NASA’s 50-year history
– five-year, non-exclusive agreement wherein the
Internet Archive will digitize, host and manage still,
moving and computer-generated imagery produced by
NASA.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/aug/HQ_0
7178_Internet_Archive.html