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JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
THE SUM OF THE PARTS: Turning Digital Library Initiatives
into a Great Whole
THE SUM OF THE PARTS: Turning Digital Library Initiatives
into a Great Whole
Keynote Address to the Joint Conference on Digital LibrariesDenver, Colorado, 8 June 2005
Deanna B. MarcumAssociate Librarian for Library ServicesLibrary of CongressWashington, DC
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Announcement fromAnnouncement from
“. . . the future of the library is that there is no library -- at least not as we know it today
. . . the always-on Millennial generation is knocking on the workforce door in ever-increasing numbers with expectations that are further rocking the floorboards of the enterprise.”
Outsell, Inc., “TrendAlert: Google’s Impact on Libraries,”
InfoAboutInfo Briefing, vol. 8 (April 15, 2005): 10.
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
“The Infinite Library”“The Infinite Library”
“If you’re over 30, today’s libraries are probably nothing like the ones you remember ... Enter any major library today and you’ll find an armory of computers and a platoon of specialists, from the reference librarians who are expert at accessing online resources to the acquisitions officers who decide which books, CDs, DVDs, and subscriptions to purchase, to the computer geeks who keep the building’s network running.”
Wade Roush, “The Infinite Library,” MIT Technology Review (June 2005): http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/issue/feature_library.asp, pg. 5.
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
A Decade of Digital Library ProjectsA Decade of Digital Library Projects
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
American Memory – 3.4 Billion HitsAmerican Memory – 3.4 Billion Hits
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Global Gateway – International ProjectsGlobal Gateway – International Projects
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Prints and Photographs Online CatalogPrints and Photographs Online Catalog
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Veterans History ProjectVeterans History Project
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Library of Congress ExhibitionsLibrary of Congress Exhibitions
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
A Comprehensive Digital Library?A Comprehensive Digital Library?
American Memory Digital Collections
Global Gateway International Collections
Prints and Photographs Catalog
Veterans History Project Collections
Online Exhibitions and Wise Guide
“Born Digital” Collections911 Digital ArchiveStoryCorps Oral HistoriesMali Manuscripts
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Same Trends in Research LibrariesSame Trends in Research Libraries
Grant driven project development
Projects proliferated in library, IT shop, and
“in the wild”
Virtual education and scholarly communication
DSpace at MIT… a newly developed digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of MIT.
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Research Library Digital ProjectsResearch Library Digital Projects
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
More than 600 “public access collections”More than 600 “public access collections”
Yale’s database for Biblical scholars
U. of Washington’s 19th- century actors collection
U. of Chicago’s dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English
U. of Southern California’s East Asian maps
U. of Minnesota’s stereoscopic views of India
More digital projects are continuously added by research libraries here
and around the world.
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
European Efforts to CoordinateEuropean Efforts to Coordinate
Conference of European National LibrariansTEL -- The European Library
Launched March 17 by 9 participating libraries
11 million digitized items from 150 collections “The European Library
exists to open up the universe of knowledge, information, and cultures of all Europe’s
national libraries.”
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Project Aquifer: Digital Library FederationProject Aquifer: Digital Library Federation
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Project Aquifer: 3 PhasesProject Aquifer: 3 Phases
1. Access to digital collections of participating institutions through a collaborative portal
2. Develop or enhance special services for users
3. Make “deep sharing” possible Access to contents of multiple digital libraries’
collections Ability to modify and redeposit collections for local
purposes
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Summing up the DecadeSumming up the Decade
Digital library work began a decade ago
There was much experimentation, from which libraries have learned a great deal
Libraries have produced many unconnected products and projects
New initiatives are beginning to bring individual digital libraries together through portals
Special services are making it possible to reuse digital library content in new and exciting ways
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Is Something More Ambitious Possible? Is Something More Ambitious Possible?
Could The European Library and the Digital Library Federation successfully come together in coordinated access systems?
Can the dream of a universal collection become a reality?
Does digital technology make a universally accessible collection possible?
A library of all the world’s resources, accessible to all the world!
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
Making the Dream a RealityMaking the Dream a Reality
Is the “universal digital library” achievable?
How could we create universal access to the libraries of the world?
What would it take to provide electronic access to library resources for all from everywhere? We can make the dream a
reality if we do four major things…
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The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
1: Update Copyright Regulations1: Update Copyright Regulations
Legal restrictions to access are “fencing the commons of the mind”
Contents of digital libraries are largely “public domain” materials
Author’s lifetime + 70 years was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2003
“…contractual licenses are supplanting copyright laws, with content owners mandating more restrictions on who uses resources and how these resources may be used.” -- Association of Research Libraries
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
1: Update Copyright Regulations1: Update Copyright Regulations
Library consortia can hold down costs of licensing digital commercial databases
ALA and others are trying to prevent further expansion of intellectual property rights and further erosion of “fair use”
Librarians and scholars are developing new “open access” resources
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
1: Update Copyright Regulations1: Update Copyright Regulations
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
2: Ensure Long-Term Preservation2: Ensure Long-Term Preservation
Digital media may deteriorate substantially within five to thirty years
Digital media can be rendered unreadable due to obsolescence of hardware and software
Migration of data to new media and systems can prolong the life of digital library resources
We must be able to make online access perpetual in order to achieve more than a short-term payoff for the substantial investment made in digitizing the world’s libraries
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
2: Ensure Long-Term Preservation2: Ensure Long-Term Preservation
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) created in 2002 Architectural model for federated digital preservationPlan for preservation research and development
Research grants totaling $3 million awarded:University of California San Diego (2 grants)University of MarylandDrexel UniversityUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of MichiganOld Dominion UniversityUniversity of Tennessee at KnoxvilleUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillJohns Hopkins University
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The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
3: Link Libraries and Digital Collections3: Link Libraries and Digital Collections
Activities of the Digital Library Federation: Collection-planning framework - activities required to
plan and build specific collections for online useTools for data mining, metadata enrichment, and other
technical activities to help “curators” develop focused collections for specialized user groups
Semantic analysis, thesaurus representation, protocols for interrogation
Digital filestores, repository options, access controls, and rights management approaches
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
3: Link Libraries and Digital Collections3: Link Libraries and Digital Collections
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
4: Find More Funding4: Find More Funding
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
4: Find More Funding4: Find More Funding
Funding is needed for mass digitization
Google “print” will pay for digitizing and provide access through search
“most librarians and archivists are ecstatic about the announcement, saying it will likely
be remembered as the moment in history when society finally got serious about making
knowledge ubiquitous.”
Wade Roush, “The Infinite Library,” MIT Technology Review (May 2005): http://www.technologyreview
.com/articles/05/05/issue/feature_library.asp?p=1
JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES – JUNE 2005
The Sum of the Parts: Turning Digital Library Initiatives in a Great Whole
If society can “make knowledge ubiquitous” the benefits will be enormous!
If society can “make knowledge ubiquitous” the benefits will be enormous!