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Preserving Imperfection: Assessing the Incidence of Digital Imaging Error in HathiTrust

dc.contributor.authorConway, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-12T02:12:15Z
dc.date.available2013-08-12T02:12:15Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationPreservation, Digital Technology & CUlture, vol 42, no. 1, 2013, pp. 17-30 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/99522>en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/99522
dc.description.abstractLarge-scale digitization efforts by third-party firms are the subject of no small amount of controversy and criticism, as is especially the case with Google Books. This article reports some of the findings and important implications of a rigorous multi-year quantitative and qualitative assessment of the images representing a sizable proportion of the digital surrogates created by Google and deposited in the HathiTrust, which is one of the most important large-scale preservation initiatives to emerge in higher education in the past fifty years. The population of study described here consists of Englishlanguage books and serials published before 1923 that were scanned and processed by Google between 2004 and 2010. At the time the data for the study were gathered (2011), this population consisted of approximately 1.25 million volumes or roughly 12 percent of the HathiTrust corpus. The findings suggest that the imperfection of digital surrogates is an obvious and nearly ubiquitous feature of Google Books and that such imperfection has become and will remain firmly ensconced in collaborative preservation repositories.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipInstitute for Museum and Library Servicesen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDe Gruyteren_US
dc.subjectDigitization, Error Measurement, HathiTrusten_US
dc.titlePreserving Imperfection: Assessing the Incidence of Digital Imaging Error in HathiTrusten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelInformation and Library Science
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumInformation, School ofen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/99522/1/J23 Conway Preserving Imperfection 2013.pdf
dc.identifier.sourcePreservation, Digital Technology & Cultureen_US
dc.owningcollnameInformation, School of (SI)


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