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OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Automating Registration of Digital Preservation Copies
The Place of Registries in the Digitization Workflow
Bill Carney
Product Manager, OCLC
LIBER-EBLIDA Workshop on the Digitization of Library Material in Europe
Copenhagen, 24th October 2007
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Agenda
The Role of Registries
The DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters
A Bright Future for the Registry
A Suggestion for a New Model
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The Role of Registries
“…Staff engaged in digitizing efforts should be able to discover whether a specific item has already been digitized, and if so whether the digitization has been done at an adequate level such that another digital copy is not required.”[1]
[1] Digital Library Federation, Registry of Digital Masters Record Creation Guidelines, May 2007, http://www.diglib.org/collections/reg/reg.htm (accessed August 16, 2007).
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The Role of Registries
A growing scope
An economic necessity
Collaboration creates efficiencies
EROMM and NRMM
A valid concept, but what does the evidence say?
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The DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters
Available in 2004
Recently released DLF Guidelines for record creation in May 2007
LIBER, OCLC and EROMM announcement to load EROMM digital preservation records into the Registry of Digital Masters
4,100 records to date with nine participating institutions
“A central place for library staff to search for, and find digitally preserved materials.”
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RDM Usage
“We want to notify our colleagues in other institutions that we intend to preserve these digital resources so they don’t have to spend their money digitizing the same thing.”
Renette Davis, University of Chicago Library
“Although we were one of the first libraries to contribute records to the registry, I think we have not started using it systematically due to two key reasons:
1. Unclear/unproven nature of the institutional and community benefits behind contributing records to the registry. I am afraid the registry is still being perceived as a test bed.
2. Unknown nature of what is involved in the process from an institutional perspective - resources and time required to contribute records to the registry.”
Oya Rieger, Cornell University
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A Change in the Environment
Google Book Search
Microsoft Live Search Books
Decreasing time lag between selection and transformation
Volume
Resource constraints
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A Bright Future for the Registry
eContentSynchronization
Process
MARC Records
Library Copy
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NotificationFind in a Library
Links
Library Agent
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The OCLC eContent Synchronization Program
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Current Contribution Model
EROMM
Library Network Library Network
Local Library Systems
DLF/OCLC RDM
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A Suggestion for a New Model
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Conclusion
SynchronizationIncreasedContribution
ReducedDuplication
IncreasedValue & Usage
IncreasedResources &Preservation
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Questions and Contact Information
Bill CarneyProduct ManagerOCLC Business Development Divisioncarneyb at OCLC.org