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Digitization of Library Material In Europe
LIBER Workshop, Copenhagen, 24-26 October 2007
Dan Burnstone, Publishing Director, ProQuest |
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ProQuest: what we do Full-text and index databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Literature (e.g. Literature Online)
Historical Collections (e.g. EEBO; Parliamentary Papers)
Historical Journal backfiles (e.g. Periodicals Archive Online)
Music, Performing Arts and Film (e.g. IIMP; IIPA)
Black Studies
Historical newspapers (e.g. New York Times; Chicago Tribune)
Dissertations
Aggregated journal databases in Business, Medical, General Reference (ABI, ProQuest 5000)
A&I databases in Arts, Humanities, Natural and Social Sciences
Library access and management services (Serial Solutions)
Microfilm
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Public-private collaborations Some current examples:
ProQuest and the EEBO Text Creation Partnership
ProQuest’s partnership with Bodleian and JISC to digitize part of the John Johnson collection
Partnership with BOPCRIS to host 18th Century Parliamentary Papers
Agreement with The National Archives for CO1 – Colonial State Papers
Contributory model
e.g. Digitization in the US of the Hartford Courant
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Early English Books Online Content:
Images of virtually every book, periodical and pamphlet printed in Britain and America, and books in English printed in other countries, from 1473 to 1700
33 languages, from Algonquin to Welsh
200 contributing libraries
More than 100,000 books
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EEBO & the Text Creation Partnership TCP launched in 1999 by universities of Michigan & Oxford; now has 150 members worldwide
Aims to provide SGML/XML tagged & keyed texts for 25,000 works in EEBO ; complete in 2008
Text + image = a powerful research and instructional tool
“An unprecedented partnership between a commercial publisher and the library community” (Dr Mark Sandler, University of Michigan)
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Structure of the Partnership Institutions that own EEBO can become members of the Text Creation Partnership
Annual fee over 5 years which goes into the TCP to fund the keying of texts
ProQuest matches a % for every member that joins
Discount on the price of EEBO for those who buy into EEBO and the TCP at the same time
PQ provides the text in the form of digital images for re-keying by the TCP
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Structure of the Partnership Both ProQuest and U. of Michigan host a copy of the content
Partner institutions own the content & can load it themselves for local use
Five years after completion of the project (i.e. in 2013), the texts will be made openly accessible and enter into the public domain
The partnership therefore foresees the eventual emergence of the keyed text into the public domain |
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The John Johnson Collection The online collection includes five categories of material:
Nineteenth-century Entertainment including theatre material and non-theatrical entertainment material
Booktrade
Popular prints – an invaluable record of locations and landscapes, architecture, popular tastes and appetites for artistic works and topography
Crime, Murders, and Executions - giving insights into the judicial system and its punishments
Advertising
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The John Johnson Collection Partnership between Oxford University, ProQuest and JISC
Phase 2 of the JISC digitization programme providing funding for the preservation, creation of metadata and digitization
Oxford provides the expertise to preserve and create the metadata
ProQuest provides the digitization services
ProQuest assumes the costs for the creation of the interface, search technology and the ongoing hosting of the content
ProQuest provides free access to the United Kingdom and can sell the content outside of the UK
Sales outside of the UK market support the ongoing hosting of the content and pays a royalty back to Oxford
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Contributory model HNP Hartford Courant (1764-1922)
State Library of Connecticut lead initiative to collect funds (including foundation support)
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ProQuest digitized the Hartford Courant public domain and hosts file for all Connecticut residents
Cost effective manner to digitize valuable local content set
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Hartford Courant Digitization paid for by the State Library of Connecticut
The newspaper will be freely available in CT and for sale outside of the State
The library will realize a royalty |
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Our approach Understanding of the specialised needs of academia - reflected in design & functionality
Expertise in the handling and conversion of rare and fragile materials
Frequent updating and redesign of resources to meet evolving requirements
Compliance to ever-changing standards is a “given” for us
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Our approach Ensuring the long-term sustainability of resources
Providing a robust and dependable service
Promotion of resources worldwide to ensure maximum usage
Flexible business models respond to specific requirements and conditions, e.g. by including open access components
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Some of the commercial partner’s strengths Market Research
Promotion/dissemination
Expertise in rights management and clearance
Technical support and responsiveness to user queries
Training
Economies of scale
Willingness to assume financial risk and storage costs
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Cardinal rules for public-private collaborations Common understanding of the needs the project is trying to satisfy
Clarity, communication, openness and trust
A legal framework
Defined roles & team structures
A project plan & project management
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Strongly recommended Common culture
Shared interests
Public-private career changers (and vice versa)
GSOH
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