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- Rick Prelinger
- Acting Director, OCA
- April 12, 2006
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- A project of Internet Archive (IA)
- Goal: to bring digital and newly digitized materials online under 6
openness principles
- Coordinating body to build joint collections online
- Activities driven through working groups
- Not media-specific, but focusing on books in Year One
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- Can be:
- Collections (e.g. UC “Americana”, Toronto)
- Funding (Yahoo!, MSN, Sloan, libraries)
- Tools (IA, RLG, search engines)
- Services (RLG)
- Facilities (UC, Toronto)
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- 1. The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree of access to and
reuse of collections in the archive, while respecting the rights of
content owners and contributors.
- 2. Contributors will determine the terms and conditions under which
their collections are distributed and how attribution should be made.
- 3. The OCA need not be obligated to accept all content that is offered
to it and may give preference to that which can be made widely
accessible.
- 4. The OCA will offer collection and item-level metadata of its hosted
collections in a variety of formats.
- 5. The OCA welcomes efforts to create and offer tools (including finding
aids, catalogs, and indexes) that will enhance the usability of the
materials in the archive.
- 6. Copies of the OCA collections will reside in multiple archives
internationally to ensure their long-term preservation and accessibility
to all.
- (http://opencontentalliance.org)
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- Free to read, view, listen, download, share
- Free to crawl, index, provide navigation services (metadata fully
exposed)
- Rehosting at discretion of contributor
- Corpus open for research and computation
- New digitization + ingestion of previously digitized works
- Contributions Working Group certifies contributions as OCA-compliant
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- Libraries
- Consortia
- Organizations
- Archives
- Technology Companies
- Foundations
- Publishers
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- Boston Public Library
- Columbia University
- Emory University
- Johns Hopkins University Libraries
- McMaster University
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- National Library of Australia
- Rice University
- Simon Fraser University
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- University of British Columbia
- University of California
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of Ottawa
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Texas
- University of Toronto
- University of Virginia
- Washington University
- York University
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- Biodiversity Heritage Library, a cooperative project of:
- American Museum of Natural History
- Harvard University Botany Libraries
- Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Natural History Museum, London
- The New York Botanical Garden
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- Boston Library Consortium, consisting of:
- Boston College
- Boston Public Library
- Boston University
- Brandeis University
- Brown University
- Marine Biological Laboratory
- & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Massachusetts Institution of Technology
- Northeastern University
- State Library of Massachusetts
- Tufts University
- University of Connecticut
- University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell and
Medical Center)
- University of New Hampshire
- Wellesley College
- Williams College
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- RLG
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Information and
Library Science
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- European Archive
- Internet Archive
- National Archives (United Kingdom)
- Prelinger Archives
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- Adobe Systems Incorporated
- HP Labs
- MSN
- Xerox Corporation
- Yahoo!
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- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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- Current holdings:
- ≈ 150 million volumes
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- Launch an open, joint library with thousands of freely available books
(Oct 06) (“Americana”)
- Begin with out-of-copyright, hope to expand to orphan works
- Name Director (pending)
- Help build partnerships between collections, service providers,
toolmakers, funders
- Address workflow issues and toolbuilding through working groups
- “Certify” and label nonbook collections
- Joint + interoperable collections (longer-term)
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- Repository accessible directly through IA (“wholesale”), contributors
and other repositories
- Links out of union catalogs and OPACs
- New OCA “open library” interface
- Contributing library interfaces
- Print-on-demand services through partners
- Value-added services (e.g., enhanced search) through commercial and
other contributors
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- Build open repository of unencumbered content
- Material available to all to reproduce, index, and add value
- Innovation and competition occur on service layer
- Openness should function similarly to how the Internet handles the
exchange of bits
- Public access to the public domain
- Opportunities for scholarly, scientific and trade publishers
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- University of Toronto
- Research Libraries Group
- California Digital Library
- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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- www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=329
- oca@archive.org
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