On 7/8/11 4:40 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Dominic - this is from the Archivist's speech
today. Is there a handy cite?
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On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, geni<geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Klein<meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Right. NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned
>> this morning. Is it 'a website'?
>>
> Do you have a cite for that? Could probably be added to:
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons
Actually, I think the point that David Ferriero was making, to give you
a sense of the immensity of their digitization struggle, was that that
is the size of their *holdings*.Their digital collections are not even
be in the millions yet; the current official number is 153,000
(documents, so the page count could still be much higher) digitized and
described at the item-level in the catalog, though there may be some
thousands more not in the catalog in online exhibits. They do, of
course, have an increasing number of born-digital documents as well.
It's a huge undertaking. As I mentioned earlier today, only 68% of the
holdings of National Archives are even cataloged, and many of these are
not even item-level descriptions, so they are not even at the point yet
where they know everything they have. Some statistics:
<http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/about-arc.html>.
Dominic