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Susan Haigh
Digital Library of Canada Task ForceFor JISC/CNI, June 2002
Toward a coherent digital information environment in
Canada: Limping, lurching and occasionally leaping
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Overview
What would be ideal? What do we have? What don’t we have? What might we do next?
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The Ideal
1. Robust funding
2. Coordinating body
3. Range of unique content
4. Jurisdictional content
5. Coherent access
6. Commitment to long-term access
7. Commitment to cooperate
8. Some experts
9. Some pragmatic decision-makers
10. Innovation
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Funding
Canadian Content Online Program (Canadian Heritage)
Canada’s Digital Collections & Aboriginal Digital Collections (Industry Canada)
CANARIE (Industry Canada)
Canada Foundation for Innovation Various provincial programs
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Libraries
Academic and public libraries under provincial jurisdiction
No provincial library system Two (or three) “national libraries” National Library and National Archives
increasingly joined up No JISC, UKOLN, Mellon Foundation,
Digital Library Federation, etc.
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Library Coordination
National associations for directors of: • research libraries • large urban public libraries • provincial and territorial libraries
Numerous regional networks Numerous consortia Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
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Major Digitization Projects
Early Canadiana Online • pre-1901 books & government documents
(CIHM)
Our Roots • local and regional histories (5 universities,
CIDL, National Library)
Peel’s Prairie Provinces • Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
imprints (4 universities)
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Major Digitization Projects (cont’d.)
The Virtual Gramophone • 78-rpm recordings (NLC)
Sheet Music from Canada’s Past• sheet music 1800-1921 (NLC)
Canadian Directories • Pre-1901 city, county, provincial & Canada
directories (NLC & CIHM)
1901 Census (National Archives) Paper of Record
• growing corpus of historical newspapers (ProQuest Micromedia/Cold North Wind)
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Born digital
Electronic collection of Canadiana
Considering broader archiving responsibilities
E-theses Scholarly e-publishing
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Licensing of Digital Content
Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNSLP)
The Alberta Library The Ontario Digital Library Quebec Research Digital Library
(proposed)
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Alberta and Quebec: Provincial Digitization Models
Alberta digitizing: newspapers local histories folklore collections historical imprints royal commissions aerial photographs statutes, bills and
gazettes art
Quebec digitizing: posters maps and plans postcards sound recordings Quebec-imprint books sheet music images from historical
periodicals prints
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Aggregated Access AMICUS national union catalogue
• 25 million bibliographic records; 1300 libraries
Images Canada• DC metadata gateway to image collections
Artefacts Canada• Museum objects
Cdn. Archival Information Network• Archival collections
Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives• Digitized collections, exhibitions, reference works
CultureCanada.gc.ca
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Digital Preservation
No national strategy yet National consultations this fall:
1. digital newspapers
2. interoperability and preservation issues
National Library considering:• Preservation state of its own e-collections• Access and preservation responsibilities for
formalized decentralized repositories
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The Ideal
1. Robust funding
2. Coordinating body
3. Range of unique content
4. Jurisdictional content
5. Coherent access
6. Commitment to long-term access
7. Commitment to cooperate
8. Some experts
9. Some pragmatic decision-makers
10. Innovation
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Some strategies for Canada
1. Learn from international research
2. Adopt/adapt the best models
3. Define minimal national standards
4. Provide national access services
5. Foster cooperation to build momentum
6. Remind projects & funders of national responsibilities
7. Brand good resources as part of a national whole
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Next up?
Digital newspapers strategy National e-theses program Increased interoperability
• images• e-prints• Texts
Digital preservation/national digital archive strategy
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Toward a national whole…
A “more coherent patchwork” of Canadian digital content
National collections Brought together in sensible
aggregation services Increased collaboration Canada-wide
National – provincial – institutional cooperation
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nlc-bnc.ca
Susan HaighManager, Program Development
Digital Library of Canada Task ForceNational Library of Canada