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Libraries have now
been involved in the creation of digital library systems for more than a
decade. In some cases they have developed a large number of projects. For
example, Cornell University has developed Project Euclid; the Core Historical
Literature of Agriculture; Historical Math Monographs; the USDA Economics,
Statistics and Market Information System; the Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery
Collection; the Making of America project; and the HEARTH (Home Economics
Archive: Research, Tradition, History) collection. Rather than re-inventing
descriptive metadata for each one of these systems, many of which include
digital representations of materials the library has in its print
collections, the descriptive metadata used to describe those print
materials—MARC metadata from the library catalog—is repurposed and used to
describe the digital representations.
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