Digitizing Diesel (and Other Great Minds)

摘要

By the end of 2013 the Springer Book Archives (SBA) will contain around 100,000 ebooks, dating back to the 1840s-nearly the entire Springer book catalog. Identifying, locating, sourcing, digitizing, and securing rights and assigning metadata for all of this content will all have been finished in under three years, giving new meaning to the term "time management." The story of the project, perhaps as much as the resulting product, is compelling and relevant to the larger scholarly community given that there is no precedent for this type and extent of effort.