INTERNET ARCHIVE & OPENLIBRARY.ORGLarge-Scale Digital Initiatives Colby College Libraries, Waterville, Maine – 2/24/12

Internet Archive

Internet Archive Non-profit founded to build an “Internet

Library” Preservation of information is primary mission Goal is to avert the “Digital Dark Age” Many Projects:

Wayback Machine Audio Collections (including trade-friendly bands!) Moving Images Software Ebooks and Texts: OpenLibrary.org

IA Digital Bookmobile

IA Ebook and Text Archive 3,240,661 items divided across multiple

collections American Libraries: 1.6 million items Canadian Libraries: 360k items Universal Library (Million Books Project):

106k items Community Texts: 132k items Project Gutenburg: 37k items Children’s Library: 3k items Biodiversity Heritage Library: 64k items

Ebook and Text Archive

Ebook and Text Archive

Ebook and Text Archive All content is free in multiple formats

PDF EPUB Kindle (MOBI) Daisy Full Text DjVu

Vast majority pre-1923 Some content is creator supplied

IA and Preservation Digital Preservation

Multiple formats generated for each digitized object

Automated backup and integrity checks Format Migration Extensive Metadata

(descriptive/use/preservation)

Physical Preservation Plan is for over 10 million physical volumes Retrieval is limited (items are boxed and

stacked)

Ebook and Text Archive Funding

Corporate Sponsors Microsoft Yahoo! Sloan Foundation

Partner Libraries Individual Libraries (many ARL) Consortial Partners

Boston Library Consortium University of California System CARLI (Illinios) Lyrasis

Ebook and Text Archive Book Submission

Library Partners Content Creators Individuals Partner Libraries

Process(es) Scribe Workstation Local Scanning

Distributed Proofreading Team

Open Library Goal is “One web page for every book ever published”

Giant Catalog: 20 million records from large catalogs and single contributions

Links to internal items, external sources N.B. “The Internet Archive and OCLC have discussed working

together, and hopefully this will yield a joint project, but nothing has been finalized yet. The plans for Open Library have been actively shared with OCLC and its records are available to OCLC. “

“Secondary goal” – get user as close to the document as possible

Built as an “Open” project “open” software “open” data “open documentation” “open contribution”

Scribe Machine

Open Library

Open Library’s Secondary Goal Linksto over 1,000,000 free ebook titles

– mostly Internet Archive pre-1923 Lending Library

200,000 digitized ebooks Post-1923 in copyright works One book-one user model Physical items archived post-scanning Maine State Library on behalf of whole

state is a partner

Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

Open Library – Send books!

Libraries in Maine are invited to send books for digitization 1923-1999 imprints Items are NOT returned First book is free, subsequent books are

~$40 Libraries do NOT need to sign contract or

MOU More information at: http://tinyurl.com/4xjnnb2