HathiTrust Announces Mass-Scale Digital Preservation Program

Created by Robert H. McDonald (Indiana University) on October 14, 2008

Yesterday the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) announced the HathiTrust project. This project is a large-scale shared digital preservation program that includes all of the CIC Libraries as well as the libraries of the University of California System (California Digital Library) and has currently two replicated nodes at Indiana University and at the University of Michigan. The press release for the HathiTrust can be found at http://www.hathitrust.org/press. Further press on the trust program can be found in the Chronicle at http://chronicle.com/free/2008/10/5061n.htm

Components of the HathiTrust will be discussed at the upcoming Educause Annual Conference in Orlando. For more on that session please see -

http://net.educause.edu/E08/Program/14627?PRODUCT_CODE=E08/SESS004

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		HathiTrust Announces Mass-Scale Digital Preservation Program Created by Robert H. McDonald (Indiana University) on October 14, 2008 Yesterday the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) announced the HathiTrust project. This project is a large-scale shared digital preservation program that includes all of the CIC Libraries as well as the libraries of the University of California System (California Digital Library) and has currently two replicated nodes at Indiana University and at the University of Michigan. The press release for the HathiTrust can be found at http://www.hathitrust.org/press. Further press on the trust program can be found in the Chronicle at http://chronicle.com/free/2008/10/5061n.htm Components of the HathiTrust will be discussed at the upcoming Educause Annual Conference in Orlando. For more on that session please see - http://net.educause.edu/E08/Program/14627?PRODUCT_CODE=E08/SESS004 Committee on Institutional Cooperation \| hathitrust \| Indiana University \| University of California \| university of michigan Robert's blog Login or register to post comments 266 reads
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