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Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper

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Title:Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper (ID: CSD5414)
Author(s):Oya Y. Rieger (Cornell University)
Source:Council on Library and Information Resources.
Abstract:

The paper describes four large-scale projects—Google Book Search, Microsoft Live Search Books, Open Content Alliance, and the Million Book Project—and their digitization strategies. It then discusses a range of issues affecting the stewardship of the digital collections they create: selection, quality in content creation, technical infrastructure, and organizational infrastructure. The paper also attempts to foresee the likely impacts of large-scale digitization on book collections.

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Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States MIRACLE Project Research Findings

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Title:Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States MIRACLE Project Research Findings (ID: CSD4909)
Author(s):Karen Markey (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Soo Y. Rieh (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Beth St. Jean (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Jihyun Kim (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), and Elizabeth Yakel (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Source:Council on Library and Information Resources.
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:In this report, the authors describe results of a nationwide census of institutional repositories in U.S. academic institutions. The census is one of several activities of the MIRACLE Project, an IMLS-funded research program based at the University of Michigan.

A considerable portion of the scholarly record is born digital, and some scholarship is produced in digital formats that have no physical, in-the-hand counterparts. The proliferation of digital scholarship raises serious and pressing issues about how to organize, access, and preserve it in perpetuity. The response of academic institutions has been to build and deploy institutional repositories (IRs) to manage the digital scholarship their learning communities produce.

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