Open Wide and Say Access: Your Guide to the World of Mass Digitization

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Geoffrey Harder

• Digitization opens wide the door to improved accessibility of published materials while, at the same time, prompting questions and concerns around copyright, ownership, and the public good. In an engaging and enlightening manner, this session will look at the pros and cons of several digitization projects, highlighting the rich benefits this work brings to researchers, students and the general public. The session will also explore some of the more troubling aspects of heavyweight mass digitization projects that “digitize first and ask copyright questions later.”

• Date created

  2010-04-30

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Digitization

• Type of Item

  Conference Paper

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3WM13T3Z

• License

  Attribution 3.0 International