Registry of Digital Masters

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Registry of Digital Masters

• A joint project of the
• Digital Library Federation and OCLC
• Taylor Surface, OCLC
• ALA Annual Chicago
• June 25, 2005

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Registry of Digital Masters

• Coordination
• Trust
• Discovery

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OCLCs digital life cycle
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Typical Digitization Workflow
Coordination? Trust? Discovery?
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a note about WorldCat

• Collaboratively built
• 55 million records
• 900 million holdings
• MARC21 / AACR2

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COORDINATION
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TRUST Use copy

• Persistent URI
• Terms conditions for access
• Special instructions
• Technical information
• Non-standard application

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TRUST Master copy

• Creation standards
• Data format
• Repository practices
• Persistent ID
• Terms conditions for access

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DISCOVERY
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DLF Working Group

• Harvard
• Carnegie-Mellon
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• University of Michigan
• University of Virginia

• Library of Congress
• RLG
• OCLC

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Implementation in OCLC

• Record Creation Guidelines
• Connexion cataloging service
• Web
• Workstation
• Batch input
• Seeding the registry
• Broader participation

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A practical example
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Digitization Workflow
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OCLC Digital Archive for digital masters

• Co-developed with
• OCLC Preservation Services
• Various digitization projects
• Preservation master files
• Managed storage preservation
• Recovery
• Re-use

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OCLC Digital Archive
Managed Storage Preservation

• On-site and offsite backups
• Ongoing virus and fixity checks
• Migration of media on which bits are stored
• Disaster recovery

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Digitization Workflow
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Back to the Registry Future!

• Public view
• OAI harvestability
• Holdings format implementation
• You?

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Registry of Digital Masters

• Coordination
• Trust
• Discovery

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Registry of Digital Masters

• Background
• www.diglib.org/collections/reg/reg.htm
• Record Creation Guidelines
• www.diglib.org/collections/reg/DigRegGuide.htm
• Me
• taylor_surface_at_oclc.org