On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks <[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>. Aha, that's a handy stats page. So we aren't not totally dwarfed by other online collections; maybe by a single order of magnitude by the free-content book collections out there. SJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
