John Mark Ockerbloom
Apr. 11, 2006
Main ideas
•A vast amount of
significant serial literature before 1964
is in the public domain in the US
–Both scholarly and
general-interest content
–More complete, and
potentially more accessible, view of mid-20th-century culture and thought than public domain
books
•We can determine what
is available to digitize
–We have created an
inventory of all periodicals renewals 1950-1977 (for 1923-1950 publications; only a tiny fraction
renewed)
–This inventory can be
the germ of a more comprehensive, cooperatively
built knowledge base
•Leadership
opportunities for DLF and its institutions
–We have the big serial
collections, the hard-core users, the knowledge of the literature and of digital library
issues
–Low-overhead shared
knowledge bases can provided a basis for coordinating work