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Public Access to Digital Materials Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Libraries

Public Access to Digital Materials Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Libraries. Brewster Kahle Director Internet Archive May 2002 Brewster@archive.org. Publishers Archiving?. Publishers pursue their commercial interests rather than the public interest Example, a public domain work:

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Public Access to Digital Materials Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Libraries

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  1. Public Access to Digital MaterialsRoles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Libraries Brewster Kahle Director Internet Archive May 2002 Brewster@archive.org

  2. Publishers Archiving? Publishers pursue their commercial interests rather than the public interest Example, a public domain work: Alice in Wonderland in Adobe’s Ebook is restricted in its use: “This book can not be read aloud”

  3. Bringing Collections Online: Examples • Web Collection: Dealing with the Large and non-traditional collections • Digitized Archival Records: Posting them on the Net • 1001 Movies: Digitization and Donation of Rich Media • InterLibrary Loan of Digital Materials • Loaning Digital Materials

  4. Web Collection • Over 100TB • 16M sites • Over 10B pages • 5 years More text than the Library of Congress, and only $300K US

  5. Alexa: Cataloging the Web Who Where When 3rd party reviews Out-of-print copies

  6. Alexa “Subject Indexing” the Web • Related and competative links • Built by usage paths and link analysis • 80 million different “catalog entries”

  7. Presidential Election 1996 Archive • Alexa with Smithsonian

  8. Presidential Election 2000 Archive • LC with Internet Archive, Compaq, Alexa Internet • 2-3 Terabytes

  9. Wayback Machine: Out of Print Pages

  10. Preservation through Replication • Hardware • Programmer error • Format obsolescent • Institutional drift • Law/Government Full Mirror at the Library of Alexandria, Egypt

  11. Posting Archival Materials Scanning for $0.10/page Post and “purge the complainers”

  12. Intellectual Property Preserves Possible Tax Incentives Rights are quite clear, but often limited Not “comprehensive”

  13. InterLibrary Loan • Walk into any library and gain access to the world’s collections • Work more smoothly with Digital Materials

  14. Loaning Materials • One approach: NetLibrary • New publisher contracts: 2500 books in SFPL

  15. Lending Rich Media: Limited Streaming • Lending limited copies • Bedrock of the Library model • “streaming” is borrowed

  16. Universal Access to Human Knowledge One page at a time, one patron at a time Brewster@archive.org

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