Libr 582: Digital images and text collectionsIntegrated digital collections

Lynn CopelandMarch 15 2011

http://www.vam.ac.uk/

http://virtualmuseum.ca

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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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• 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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Digitize the Canadian Documentary Heritage

Create a Preservation Network

Facilitate enduring online Access

Our Goals

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• 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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•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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History of Canadiana

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1978 1997 2005 2008

CIHM ECO AlouetteCanada

Canadiana

90k titles15M pages

Digitize CIHM57. 5K titles, 3.2 M pages,250K pages/year40% OASubs (CRKN+) UA

CARL

Aggregation, Access

Merger

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Conservative estimate

Source, Canada Online Scope White-paper, 2007

The Canadian Corpus

Type of material Corpus

Books (titles) 2,000,000

Books on fiche 95,000

Serials (titles) 150,000Federal & 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