simon bell - day 2, workshop 3

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The British Library and Digitisation Partnerships

Simon Bell Head of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing

British Library

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The British Library

UK national library / legal deposit library

One of the largest libraries in the world

Over 300km of shelving

150,000,000 items

Collection grows at 15km a year

2000 staff

Collections in all known written languages

Need to digitise

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Boutique Digitisation

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Characteristics of Boutique Digitisation

Self-selecting i.e. obvious treasures

Drivers: cultural restitution, wider public access

Sometimes private sponsorship, especially for iconic items

Subsume costs e.g. hosting

External Funding. e.g. Dept of Ed

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Mass Digitisation

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Mass Library Digitisation Projects – Funding or Sustainability Models?

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Government / Dept of Education Funding / Lottery Funding – usually free, open to all, few, if any user restrictions.

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Mass Library Digitisation Projects – Funding or Sustainability Models?

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Hybrid Models – Public / Private Partnerships.

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Contract Law undermining Copyright Law

Fair Dealing / Fair Use

“You may not copy the Products in any form.”

Archiving

“On termination of this Agreement, the Licensee agrees to destroy, and will use its reasonable endeavours to procure that all Authorized Users destroy all Licensed Material stored on any digital information storage media, including, but not limited to, system servers, hard disk, diskettes, and back up tapes.”

Over 90% of contracts offered to the British Library undermine copyright law.

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Mass Library Digitisation Projects – Funding or Sustainability Models?

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Traditional secondary publisher models. e.g. Gale, ProQuest, Adam Mathew etc.

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Mass Library Digitisation Projects – Funding or Sustainability Models?

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Search Engine Model. e.g. Microsoft and Google

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Contractual Partnership ‘Go-fors’

TermFreedoms for re-use and re-purposing

IPRAccess

Non-exclusive

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Technology

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Streamlined Rights Clearance

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For the 19th Century literature project it would take

214 years

to clear permissions for post 1850 material.

All this material in the public domain in the US.

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Orphan Works

Legislative & Collective Licensing Solution

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Issues

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www.bl.uk

simon.bell@bl.uk