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[Dominic]

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 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Klein<meta.sj at 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:
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>> 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