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1 Brewster Kahle Director Internet Archive
Public Access to Digital Materials Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Libraries                       Brewster Kahle Director Internet Archive May 2002 February 19

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” February 19

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 February 19

4 More text than the Library of Congress, and only $300K US
Web Collection Over 100TB 16M sites Over 10B pages 5 years More text than the Library of Congress, and only $300K US February 19

5 Alexa: Cataloging the Web
Who Where When 3rd party reviews Out-of-print copies February 19

6 Alexa “Subject Indexing” the Web
Related and competative links Built by usage paths and link analysis 80 million different “catalog entries” February 19

7 Presidential Election 1996 Archive
Alexa with Smithsonian February 19

8 Presidential Election 2000 Archive
LC with Internet Archive, Compaq, Alexa Internet 2-3 Terabytes February 19

9 Wayback Machine: Out of Print Pages
February 19

10 Preservation through Replication
Hardware Programmer error Format obsolescent Institutional drift Law/Government Full Mirror at the Library of Alexandria, Egypt February 19

11 Posting Archival Materials
Scanning for $0.10/page Post and “purge the complainers” February 19

12 Intellectual Property Preserves
Possible Tax Incentives Rights are quite clear, but often limited Not “comprehensive” February 19

13 InterLibrary Loan Walk into any library and gain access to the world’s collections Work more smoothly with Digital Materials February 19

14 Loaning Materials One approach: NetLibrary
New publisher contracts: 2500 books in SFPL February 19

15 Lending Rich Media: Limited Streaming
Lending limited copies Bedrock of the Library model “streaming” is borrowed February 19

16 Universal Access to Human Knowledge
One page at a time, one patron at a time February 19


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