Bob Felsing – East Asian Bibliographer, University of OregonThis presentation analyzes the nine-year experience of an academic digital library, e-Asia, which now holds over 4,000 items. In many respects, the e-Asia library is a long-running experiment. Yet the project is mature enough to provided lessons in what to do (and what not to do) when digital text is the focus of collection building. Unlike traditional libraries where, over time, books migrate to and from their shelves, digital libraries hold content that remains relatively immobile while it is the digital “shelves” that change and migrate over time.

The issues to be highlighted in this presentation are from an “in-the-trenches” perspective. Issues include: workflows, scanning procedures and choices, software use, OCR and (cooperative) proofreading, non-Roman character recognition, ebook formats, and finished product presentation. Other sundry concerns such as storage/archiving, the mobile web, and the impact of Google books, e-ink, and Amazon.com will be discussed in the contect of the academic digital library.

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