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The UM-Google Digitization Deal
What it is, how we got there, and what it will mean for the UM
Overview
• Michigan’s “deal”– How did we get there?– What will be digitized?– What about the legal issues?– What happens to the … (images, books)?– We get a copy? Basic implications?– Why did we do this?
• Some meta-matters• What about “standards”? How good are these files?• What will happen? When?• Why would UM put the materials online?• Transformative implications
Michigan’s deal
• How did we get there?
• What will be digitized?– University Library, print (bound)
• What about the legal issues?
• What happens to the … (images, books)?
• We get a copy? What does that mean, and what (in basic terms) will we do?
• Why did we do this?
Why would Google? “project’s aim is simple: help maintain the
preeminence of books and libraries in our increasingly Internet-centric culture by making these information resources an integral part of the online experience. We hope to guide more users to their local libraries; to digital archives of some of the world's greatest research institutions; and to out-of-print books they might not be able to find anywhere else – all while carefully respecting authors’ and publishers' copyrights.”
Google Print/Library FAQReally???
Meta-issues
• Ends, not means
• Respect different organization imperatives
• Simplify, don’t complicate
About the files…
• Benchmarking/standards• Similar process with Google• What we get is package per volume, id’d by barcode,
incl.• 600dpi ITU G4 (bitonal) for print• 300dpi JPEG2000 color/grayscale for illus.• naming conventions corresponding to UM specs• OCR• Checksums• Production notes
• Quality control• Ongoing improvement of hardware/engineering• Are the images perfect?• But you want to know how they do it!
What will happen? When?
• Google began large-scale capture @UM
• UM has begun to receive content
• Samples are in Google Print
• Large amounts in … Q3?
• At UM, a year or more
Why would UM put the materials online?
• Michigan “audience” more specific and thus more specialized– More flexible displays– More powerful citation tools– Power searches?– Data mining?– Research?
• Responsibility for the “archive”
Transformative implications
• Broad, efficient, democratizing access• Access as driver for …• Exaggerating and resolving IP issues• Creation of cooperative “universal” library• Exacerbating paradox of “library as place”• Facilitating “specialization” (ceding “generalist”
role to Google)• Freeing up resources for related issues (e.g.,
institutional repositories, scholarly communication)