Overview of Internet Archive and Open Library. Part of the program "Large-Scale Digital Initiatives," held at Colby College on February 24, 2012.

1. INTERNET ARCHIVE &
OPENLIBRARY.ORG
Large-Scale Digital Initiatives
Colby College Libraries, Waterville, Maine – 2/24/12

2. Internet Archive

3. Internet Archive
 Non-profit founded to build an “Internet
Library”
 Preservation of information is primary mission
 Goal is to avert the “Digital Dark Age”
 Many Projects:
 Wayback Machine
 Audio Collections (including trade-friendly bands!)
 Moving Images
 Software
 Ebooks and Texts: OpenLibrary.org

4. IA Digital Bookmobile

5. IA Ebook and Text Archive
 3,240,661 items divided across multiple
collections
 American Libraries: 1.6 million items
 Canadian Libraries: 360k items
 Universal Library (Million Books Project): 106k
items
 Community Texts: 132k items
 Project Gutenburg: 37k items
 Children’s Library: 3k items
 Biodiversity Heritage Library: 64k items

6. Ebook and Text Archive

7. Ebook and Text Archive

8. Ebook and Text Archive
 All content is free in multiple formats
 PDF
 EPUB
 Kindle (MOBI)
 Daisy
 FullText
 DjVu
 Vast majority pre-1923
 Some content is creator supplied

9. IA and Preservation
 Digital Preservation
 Multiple formats generated for each digitized
object
 Automated backup and integrity checks
 Format Migration
 Extensive Metadata
(descriptive/use/preservation)
 Physical Preservation
 Plan is for over 10 million physical volumes
 Retrieval is limited (items are boxed and stacked)

10. Ebook and Text Archive
 Funding
 Corporate Sponsors
 Microsoft
 Yahoo!
 Sloan Foundation
 Partner Libraries
 Individual Libraries (many ARL)
 Consortial Partners
 Boston Library Consortium
 University of California System
 CARLI (Illinios)
 Lyrasis

11. Ebook and Text Archive
 Book Submission
 Library Partners
 Content Creators
 Individuals
 Partner Libraries
 Process(es)
 Scribe Workstation
 Local Scanning
 Distributed Proofreading Team

12. Open Library
 Goal is “One web page for every book ever published”
 Giant Catalog: 20 million records from large catalogs and single
contributions
 Links to internal items, external sources
 N.B. “The Internet Archive and OCLC have discussed working
together, and hopefully this will yield a joint project, but nothing
has been finalized yet. The plans for Open Library have been
actively shared with OCLC and its records are available to
OCLC. “
 “Secondary goal” – get user as close to the document as
possible
 Built as an “Open” project
 “open” software
 “open” data
 “open documentation”
 “open contribution”

13. Scribe Machine

14. Open Library

15. Open Library’s Secondary Goal
 Linksto over 1,000,000 free ebook titles –
mostly Internet Archive pre-1923
 Lending Library
 200,000 digitized ebooks
 Post-1923 in copyright works
 One book-one user model
 Physical items archived post-scanning
 Maine State Library on behalf of whole state is a
partner

16. Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

17. Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

18. Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

19. Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

20. Open Library – Borrow Ebooks

21. Open Library – Send books!
 Libraries in Maine are invited to send books for
digitization
 1923-1999 imprints
 Items are NOT returned
 First book is free, subsequent books are ~$40
 Libraries do NOT need to sign contract or MOU
 More information at: http://tinyurl.com/4xjnnb2