OCLC Digital

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OCLC Digital Preservation Resources

• Business Plan Discussion
• Meg Bellinger
• Vice President, DPR

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Overview

• Trends
• Implications
• OCLCs Response

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Technology Trends

• Proliferation of content-access software
• Proliferation of content-capture hardware
• Ubiquitous distribution channel
• Expanding bandwidth
• Planned, rapid obsolescence
• IT resource scarcity

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End-User Expectations

• Desk-top access -gt Here
• Immediate response -gt Now
• Deep resource access -gt Integrated
• and evolving

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Implications for Libraries

• Competition with commercial precedents
• Machine dependency for access
• Unprecedented, ongoing costs
• Tensions between traditional new organizational
  models
• Re-skilling staff
• Redefined relevance

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OCLCs Response

• Necessity is the Mother
• of Cooperation

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OCLCs Response

• Business Objective Extend the Cooperative
• Reduce digital life-cycle management costs
• Identify, pool, deploy knowledge skills
• Engage new communities to enrich WorldCat
• Ensure economic sustainability

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Extending the Cooperative
Digital Co-op
Content
Regional DPR Centers
Digital Archive
Other repository
Other repository
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DPR Business Plan

• Learn Create Digital Preservation
  Cooperative
• Create Control Digital Preservation
  Resources Centers
• Control Preserve Digital Archive

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The Digital Preservation CooperativeBuilding
sustaining digital collections through
collaboration

• Build collections knowledge through
  collaboration
• Save time money through Co-op participation
• Add value to digital collections
• Develop adopt premier tool sets

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Progress

• Charter participants
• Participant sign-up at ALA Midwinter
• Consulting services available now
• Workshops begin Spring 2002
• Website available now Extranet in Spring 2002
• Digital tools available Spring 2002
• CONTENTdm Gallery, http//contentdm.com/collect
  ions.html

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DPR CentersHigh-quality collection conversion.
Enhanced access capabilities.

• Preservation
• Analog to film digital
• Film to digital
• Digital Access Enrichment
• Metadata creation, conversion, markup
• Online exhibit creation hosting

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Progress

• Olive Software, Inc. -- Spring 02
• PipeX automated microfilm conversion
• British Library Demo Site
• http//www.uk.olivesoftware.com
• Full-service Digital Conversion now ongoing
• Western DPR Center -- Summer 02

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OCLC Digital ArchiveLong-term retention and
access

• Workflow integration
• Flexible storage options
• Store or preserve
• OCLC and/or Local archive
• Control of access and rights
• Reduce risks of long-term retention

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Progress

• Web Document Digital Archive -- Spring 02
• Disaster Recovery Spring 02
• Preservation Metadata Now ongoing
• OAIS Steering by Standards April ongoing
• Batch Ingest by late Summer 02
• E-journals
• Special collections
• Newspaper content

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Extending the Vision 2002

• Next-generation digital libraries
• Gen 1 Online catalog -- 1967
• Gen 2 Digital projects -- 1990s
• Gen 3 Digital programs for sustainability
  interoperability --2002

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Discussion