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Libr 582: Digital images and text collectionsIntegrated digital collections
Lynn CopelandMarch 15 2011
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
http://virtualmuseum.ca
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To present our cultural and scientific heritage in its bilingual and multicultural variety to our citizens and to the world, and to develop a comprehensive plan to provide Canadians with enduring digital access to that heritage.
MISSION
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• Build an open content collaboration with no requirement to transfer content ownership or rights.
• Ensure maximum public access with respect for copyright, including free and open access to public domain and public sector content.
• Reflect Canada’s fundamental values such as bilingualism, multiculturalism, inclusiveness, equity.
• Promote internationally-recognized standards and best practices.
Guiding Principles
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Digitize the Canadian Documentary Heritage
Create a Preservation Network
Facilitate enduring online Access
Our Goals
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• Preservation Network of Trusted Digital Repositories
• Provincial Discovery Portals
• National Discovery Portals
• Mobile Digitization – bring production to collections
• Mass-digitization Centres – for very large collections
• Digital Collection Builder – making collections accessible
Access to Tools and Services
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•Promote digitization, preservation and access •Organize pan-Canadian collaboration among memory institutions•Expand membership and engage all sectors•Support fundraising to achieve objectives•Facilitate Public Private Partnerships•Promote standards, policies and processes for an integrated national preservation and access network•Share expertise, tools and capacity•Consolidate delivery to realize economies of scale, to reduce costs and to grow online content faster
Objectives
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History of Canadiana
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1978 1997 2005 2008
CIHM ECO AlouetteCanada
Canadiana
90k titles15M pages
Digitize CIHM57. 5K titles, 3.2 M pages,250K pages/year40% OASubs (CRKN+) UA
CARL
Aggregation, Access
Merger
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Conservative estimate
Source, Canada Online Scope White-paper, 2007
The Canadian Corpus
Type of material Corpus
Books (titles) 2,000,000
Books on fiche 95,000
Serials (titles) 150,000Federal & Provincial government documents (items) 1,000,000
Newspapers (microfilm reels) 380,000
Theses (titles) 300,000
Music (songs) 1,380,000
Radio broadcasts (hours) 600,000
Film, Video & TV (hours) 4,400,000
Maps (items) 2,500,000
Art, Photography & Portraiture (items) 26,440,000
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Comments/questions?
Lynn Copeland
copeland@sfu.ca
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