Mass Digitization : Implications for Information Policy

Bibliographic description

NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (NCLIS). Mass Digitization : Implications for Information Policy [online]. Washington, D.C. : The University of Michigan Library and The U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS),  2006-05-09. [visited 10 April 2007] Available from : http://www.nclis.gov/digitization/MassDigitizationSymposium-Report.pdf

Extract

“ Under each of the nine areas, this report synthesizes the relevant comments made by the speakers at the symposium. The report concludes that the challenges ahead are many and finding workable solutions will be like fitting together puzzle pieces. The pieces include authors, scholars, publishers, libraries, associations, and government agencies. The solutions will involve education and awareness, policies, responsibility, standards, quality, cooperation, rights, sustainability, technology, and assessment. ”

Metadata

DC Title : Mass Digitization : Implications for Information Policy

DC Creator : National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS)

DC Subject : scholarship, information literacy, University of Michigan, copyright, fair use, Optical Characters Recognition, legal impacts, economic impacts, social impacts.

DC Description : The nine issues identified to have potential impact on national information policy are:

1. How should important aspects of copyright—fair use, orphan works, opt-in vs. opt-out models—be handled in digitization projects ?

2. Quality: When is the quality of OCR good enough ? What about quality of content and authentication ?

3. What are the roles and priorities for libraries in the digital age? Mass digitization 4. Who will assume long-term ownership of books and journals and other media ? Who will take responsibility for long-term preservation of books and journals and other media, and preserving the public record ?

5. Standardization and interoperability: How can the silos of digital initiatives communicate with each other?

6. What are the roles of publishers and booksellers in the digital age?

7. What business models are needed in the era of mass digitization? How will the open access movement affect the economics of digitization?

8. Information literacy: What should be done about information illiteracy?

9. Assessment: What types of assessment are being used? How will we know if digitization and electronic access are meeting people’s needs?

DC Publisher : The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science ; University of Michigan, (Ann Arbor Michigan)

DC Contributor :

DC Date : 2006-05-09

DC Type : texte

DC Format : pdf

DC Identifier : http://www.nclis.gov/digitization/MassDigitizationSymposium-Report.pdf

DC Source : Report from  “Scholarship and Libraries in Transition : A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects” Symposium held on March 10-11, 2006 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan

DC Language : en

DC Relation : weblog of symposium available from : http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/sltsymposium/

DC Coverage : world

DC Right : The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science ; University of Michigan, (Ann Arbor Michigan)

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