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Building Shared Collections

Title (author1): 
Mr
First names (author1): 
Alexis
Surname (author 1): 
Rossi
Institution: 
Internet Archive
Country: 
UNITED STATES
Presentation type: 
spoken paper
Date: 
30 Sept Wednesday
Start time: 
1 500
Venue: 
Grand Auditorium
Abstract: 

The Internet gives us powerful tools to build collections collaboratively, and all of us can benefit. This spoken paper addresses the opportunities we have to:
- build collections beyond individual organization budgets
- benefit from the subject matter expertise of people outside our fields
- crowd source the work of digitization
- explore the semantic relationships between media items
- facilitate large scale data mining and other research projects
Internet Archive (archive.org) is a nonprofit library founded to preserve and make accessible all human knowledge. We have built large collections of books, music, movies, images, software, and web pages, and more than 2 million visitors use our site every day.
Internet Archive is building tools that will allow anyone to create collections within our library, whether they are individuals or institutions. We will discuss how these tools might benefit your organizations.