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1	Kickin’ It Up a Notch: Cooking with the Digital Registry Robin Wendler Harvard University r_wendler@harvard.edu Digital Library Federation Spring Forum April 20, 2004
2	Registry of Digital Masters What is a digital registry and why is it needed? Record of digital holdings with intent to preserve Reduce duplicative effort “More access for less cost”
3	Purpose and Intent Facilitate coordination of digitization and digital preservation efforts Increase access to digital content
4	Adding materials to the Registry Digitized according to standards and best practices Professionally managed storage Intent to preserve for long term Use copy available
5	Implementation: Phase 1 Guidelines developed by working group Use of existing MARC 21 fields View records via WorldCat Search label “dlr” Add/update via Connexion Add via separate batch load Coordinate with OCLC
6	What’s coming More records, more contributors Future developments: Registry visible as a separate entity Enable bulk extraction of records for re-use Batch processing of updates Better displays of multiple digital representations of a resource
7	Q&A and More Information Susan Westberg, OCLC E-mail: susan_westberg@oclc.org Phone: 800-848-5878 Thank you