Johnno: New page: In 1950-59, 4037 publications in NZ (publication = pamphlet of 5+ pages, or a novel). Where are they, how do we get hold of them, and can they be freed? * [http://natlib.govt.nz/collectio...

2013-11-28T04:21:11Z

New page: In 1950-59, 4037 publications in NZ (publication = pamphlet of 5+ pages, or a novel). Where are they, how do we get hold of them, and can they be freed? * [http://natlib.govt.nz/collectio...

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In 1950-59, 4037 publications in NZ (publication = pamphlet of 5+ pages, or a novel). Where are they, how do we get hold of them, and can they be freed?

* [http://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-z/publications-new-zealand Publications NZ] - has all of the things, in MARC. Federated to Worldcat. US Copyright law restricts stuff since 1870.
* Some stuff will need consultation with Iwi
* [http://www.kiwialex.com/1/post/2013/03/about-the-project.html Reclaiming New Zealand's Digitised Heritage project] - Kiwi Alex
* Today's bibliographies from libraries may not match online or physical storage. Stuff can be in stack, lost, moved, destroyed, storage, etc. It may be possible to use cross-catalogue data or cross-media data to track books down (e.g. mentions in Papers Past)
* Maybe leave out unpublished data
* How do we get institutions to lend the books to digitise? NL won't lend out valuable material without conservator reporting.

What format, and how do we make it text-searchable?

* Agree on something like METS-ALTO and DC, and federate with OAI-PMH and/or use Digital NZ.
* NL scanned 300dpi colour TIFF images per page, into PDF with page image + OCR.
* e-books in EPUB, which is (more or less) zipped HTML. Kindle uses MobiPocket, another format based on Open eBook.
* ODPS is a syndication format - like RSS but for e-books.
* http://stats.govt.nz/ ← fully searchable open access (XML) yearbook data.
* TEI XML can be huge and possibly redundant for many use cases - http://www.tei-c.org/
* Gutenberg Project offer many formats - but some are auto-generated from a master

How do we make it available online?

* Some data will be very specific and of little commercial or even research value.
* Others will have high commercial value

Some have been digitised already.

* Digitisation efforts are already under way at National Library.
* Some stuff is in Google Books/Hathi Trust, but sourced from the US (little comms with Nat Lib NZ), can be tricky to get stuff from them
* Some is public domain, some copyrighted

Do we want to cover periodicals?

* Quite probably yes!
* RILM are going about digitising.

Who will host it, who will "own" it and maintain it over time?

* National Library seems the most sensible fit
* Public/Private collaboration; should we delete data that is objected to by one or two stakeholders?
** Reliance on corporate law and upholding contracts
** Could the private organisations be not-for-profit, or similarly chartered?
** Retain public ownership

== Audience ==

Where is the data for matching your message, with the right audience, and the platform they tend to use? For example for 16 year-olds, we need Facebook, but not so much for retirees?!

* Media studies - in primary and secondary education, there are "bring your own device" initiatives which may have good data.
* Sometimes lack of demand is because people don't know it's available and/or don't know they're looking for it
* Local information could be sliced-and-diced by locality, person, and so on (semantic metadata) and be highly relevant to the punters.

DH-2 - Revision history

Johnno: New page: In 1950-59, 4037 publications in NZ (publication = pamphlet of 5+ pages, or a novel). Where are they, how do we get hold of them, and can they be freed? * [http://natlib.govt.nz/collectio...