On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:58 PM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are any of the GLAMs actually archiving their precioussssss > high-resolution scans *offsite*?
Many libraries are sending high res scans to Internet Archive (IA). Most notably, the libraries participating in [[Million Book Project]] are doing this, however IA has bulk upload facilities, and institutions with lower volume scanning projects are using that approach. Australia is a long way behind here in "letting go". NLA has uploaded 11 books: http://www.archive.org/details/national_library_of_australia To be very blunt, there is more Australian works being digitised overseas and archived on IA than our libraries are even scanning, let alone also exposing to the world. There are 2,068 _books_ which include the word Australia somewhere in the basic metadata. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=australia%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts Search for the word Australia in the _text_ of the book reveals that google has 202,000 matches (not all books). http://www.google.com.au/search?q=australia+site%3Aarchive.org -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
