Public Access to Digital Materials Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Libraries

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Public Access to Digital MaterialsRoles,
Rights, and Responsibilities of Libraries
Brewster Kahle Director Internet Archive May
2002 Brewster_at_archive.org
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Publishers Archiving?
Publishers pursue their commercial interests
rather than the public interest Example, a
public domain work Alice in Wonderland in
Adobes Ebook is restricted in its use This
book can not be read aloud
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Bringing Collections Online Examples

• Web Collection Dealing with the Large and
  non-traditional collections
• Digitized Archival Records Posting them on the
  Net
• 1001 Movies Digitization and Donation of Rich
  Media
• InterLibrary Loan of Digital Materials
• Loaning Digital Materials

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Web Collection

• Over 100TB
• 16M sites
• Over 10B pages
• 5 years

More text than the Library of Congress, and only
300K US
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Alexa Cataloging the Web

• Who
• Where
• When
• 3rd party reviews
• Out-of-print copies

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Alexa Subject Indexing the Web

• Related and competative links
• Built by usage paths and link analysis
• 80 million different catalog entries

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Presidential Election 1996 Archive

• Alexa with Smithsonian

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Presidential Election 2000 Archive

• LC with Internet Archive, Compaq, Alexa Internet
• 2-3 Terabytes

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Wayback Machine Out of Print Pages
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Preservation through Replication

• Hardware
• Programmer error
• Format obsolescent
• Institutional drift
• Law/Government
• Full Mirror at the Library of Alexandria, Egypt

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Posting Archival Materials
Scanning for 0.10/page Post and purge the
complainers
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Intellectual Property Preserves
Possible Tax Incentives Rights are quite clear,
but often limited Not comprehensive
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InterLibrary Loan

• Walk into any library and gain access to the
  worlds collections
• Work more smoothly with Digital Materials

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Loaning Materials

• One approach NetLibrary
• New publisher contracts 2500 books in SFPL

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Lending Rich Media Limited Streaming

• Lending limited copies
• Bedrock of the Library model
• streaming is borrowed

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• Universal Access to Human Knowledge
• One page at a time, one patron at a time
• Brewster_at_archive.org