1	The Open Content Alliance Rick Prelinger Acting Director, OCA April 12, 2006
2	Open Content Alliance (OCA) 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
3	OCA contributions Can be: Collections (e.g. UC “Americana”, Toronto) Funding (Yahoo!, MSN, Sloan, libraries) Tools (IA, RLG, search engines) Services (RLG) Facilities (UC, Toronto)
4	OCA Principles 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)
5	Principles (in practice) 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
6	OCA Contributors Libraries Consortia Organizations Archives Technology Companies Foundations Publishers
7	Libraries 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
8	Consortia 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
9	Organizations RLG University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science
10	Archives European Archive Internet Archive National Archives (United Kingdom) Prelinger Archives
11	Technology Companies Adobe Systems Incorporated HP Labs MSN Xerox Corporation Yahoo!
12	Foundations William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
13	Publishers O’Reilly Media
14	OCA Contributor Libraries Current holdings: ≈ 150 million volumes
15	OCA Priorities 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)
16	Services to develop 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
17	Content as infrastructure 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
18	Thanks University of Toronto Research Libraries Group California Digital Library The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
19	www.opencontentalliance.org www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=329 oca@archive.org