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A lot of my writer friends have been alarmed by the @internetarchive's #NationalEmergencyLibrary, an electronic lending library.
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The Archive has long acquired and scanned books and made them available as DRM-locked PDFs that one person at a time could check out, building on firm copyright precedent, notably the #HathiTrust decision.
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The vast majority of "checkouts" from the Archive have always been fleeting -- literally minutes long. Basically, it's a quick way to double-check a reference or look up a passage (a lot of checkouts are generated by people following references from Wikipedia).
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Hi! I’m the Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at @edinburghuni, & today I’ll be talking about the digitisation of Gallery, Library, Archive & Museum (GLAM) material in the context of #Covid19, & how that intersects with #digitalhumanities research interests #DHgoesVIRAL 1/20
First, I want to acknowledge how stressful a time this is for all of us. Also the work that went into the sudden shut down of our memory institutions. More than ever, we are all dependent on digital, & the digitisation of all of society #DHgoesVIRAL 2/20
We’re dependent on cultural content for our wellbeing, as well as our work. It has been wonderful to see the GLAM sector rise to the challenge of content creation, & dissemination, communicating with a vastly increased digital audience #DHgoesVIRAL 3/20
