On 7/8/11 4:40 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Dominic - this is from the Archivist's speech today. Is there a handy cite? > > S > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, geni<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Klein<[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
