Enduring Access to Digitized Books: Organizational and Technical Framework

The digitization of millions of books under corporate and non-profit programs is dramatically expanding our ability to search, discover, and retrieve published materials. Accompanying this progress are cultural heritage institutions’ concerns about the long-term management challenges associated wi...

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Main Authors: Oya Y. Rieger, William R. Kehoe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2009-12-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://129.215.67.233:80/ijdc/article/view/121
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Summary:The digitization of millions of books under corporate and non-profit programs is dramatically expanding our ability to search, discover, and retrieve published materials. Accompanying this progress are cultural heritage institutions’ concerns about the long-term management challenges associated with providing enduring access to a hlarge corpus of digitized materials, especially within the confinements of copyright laws. The goal of this presentation is to describe Cornell University Library’s program to illustrate a range of organizational and technical issues involved in planning and implementing a preservation infrastructure for digitized books.
ISSN:1746-8256