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- Robin Wendler
- Harvard University
- r_wendler@harvard.edu
- Digital Library Federation Spring Forum
- April 20, 2004
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- 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”
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- Facilitate coordination of digitization and digital preservation efforts
- Increase access to digital content
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- Digitized according to standards and best practices
- Professionally managed storage
- Intent to preserve for long term
- Use copy available
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- Guidelines developed by working group
- Use of existing MARC 21 fields
- View records via WorldCat
- Add/update via Connexion
- Add via separate batch load
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- 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
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- Susan Westberg, OCLC
- E-mail: susan_westberg@oclc.org
- Phone: 800-848-5878
- Thank you
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