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Template to gather info:

• URL(s):
• Creator of Registry:
• About/Description:
• Numbers of collections/objects (however they count):
• How to contribute:
• Content Type:

Archive-It

• URL(s): http://www.archive-it.org and http://archive-it.org/public/urlRegistry.html
• Creator of Registry: Internet Archive/Archive-IT
• About/Description: Archive-It, a subscription service from the Internet Archive, allows institutions to harvest and preserve collections of digital content and create Digital Archives. Through a user-friendly web interface, Archive-It partners can catalog, manage, and browse their archived collections. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center and are accessible to the public with full-text search. All collections are listed here: http://archive-it.org/public/all_collections.html. There is also a seed URL registry here: http://archive-it.org/public/urlRegistry.html
• Numbers of collections/objects: As of 1/31/11: 2,343,161,323 URLs in 1,286 public collections.
• How to contribute: Any public collections created using Archive-IT are automatically included (?) (maybe Kristine Hanna can confirm this.
• Content Type: websites

IIPC Member Archives

• URL(s): http://netpreserve.org/about/archiveList.php
• Creator of Registry: International Internet Preservation Consortium
• About/Description: A directory of all IIPC member organization's archives. Contains information about Collecting institution, URL, Start Date, Archive interface language(s), Access methods, Harvesting Methods, and Description.
• Numbers of archives listed: 24
• How to contribute: IIPC members only can contribute right now. They fill out some information on a members' only forum that populates this page.
• Content Type: websites

GPO Federal Digitization Registry

• URL(s): http://registry.fdlp.gov/
• Creator of Registry: U.S. Government Printing Office
• About/Description: The Registry contains records for projects that include digitized copies of publications originating from the U.S. Government. It serves as a locator tool for publicly accessible collections of digitized U.S. Government publications; increases awareness of U.S. Government publication digitization projects that are planned, in progress, or completed; fosters collaboration for digitization projects; and provides models for future digitization projects.
• Numbers of collections/objects (however they count): 166 collections
• How to contribute: To contribute to the Registry, login and use the "My Registry" tab to view, add, and edit your listings.
• Content Type: Audio/Visual, Geospatial, Text, Images, Websites

LOCKSS publishers and titles list

• URL(s): http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Publishers_and_Titles
• Creator of Registry: LOCKSS Alliance
• About/Description: Links to over 6,600 e-journal titles from approximately 450 publishers with ISSN and eISSN, available as .csv, .xls, .ods, .pdf
• Numbers of archives listed: over 6,600 e-journal titles
• How to contribute: Publishers must first make their titles LOCKSS-compliant. LOCKSS Alliance members can then collect and preserve all Open Access titles as well as those e-journals to which they subscribe.
• Content Type: electronic journals

MetaArchive Cooperative conspectus data

• URL(s): http://conspectus.metaarchive.org/collections/index/state/active
• Creator of Registry: MetaArchive Cooperative
• About/Description: A listing of all collections preserved in the MetaArchive Cooperative's Private LOCKSS Network (PLN). Contains name of Archive (one of several subject or genre-based networks within the larger MetaArchive network), Collection title (with link to collection-level description), Number of Archival Units (AUs) associated with collection, Plugin name, and Content Provider (MetaArchive partner) name.
• Numbers of archives listed: 18 content providers
• How to contribute: MetaArchive members fill out collection-level entry when submitting digital material for preservation by the network. This list shows collections already ingested for preservation.
• Content Type: primary digital cultural heritage material: websites, digital images, digital audio, digital video, digital documents, plus electronic theses and dissertations.

NDIIPP Partner Collections

• URL(s): http://digitalpreservation.gov/collections/collections.html
• Creator of Registry: NDIIPP/Library of Congress
• About/Description: "Preservation partners from around the world are selecting and preserving at risk digital content. Use this interface to explore what has been collected so far." This interface allows faced searching and browsing of records that point off to collections at various partner websites. There is information about access restrictions and basic subject categorization, as well as type of content.
• Numbers of collections: 1403
• How to contribute: Right now, LC is building this based on a spreadsheet of information gathered from NDIIPP partners since the beginning of the program. Trevor Owens at LC has created the interface in Recollection and is interesting in talking with the CWG about how we could populate this registry more easily and more automatically.
• Content Type: Audio/Visual, Geospatial, Text, Images, Websites

International Coalition on Newspapers US Newspaper Digital projects

• URL(s): http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm#US
• Creator of Registry: Center for Research Libraries
• About/Description: The International Coalition on Newspapers is a coordinated multi-institutional effort to increase the availability of international newspaper collections by improving both bibliographic and physical access to global newspaper collections.
• Numbers of collections/objects (however they count): 139 U.S. websites/newspapers listed (some, like NDNP, themselves include numerous newspapers, but may also duplicate the other listings); some of these do not have links or have links that are behind paywalls.
• How to contribute: CRL invites major research libraries outside its membership to participate in the Global Resources Network ICON program. Participants pay an initial, one-time contribution of US$4500 and a subsequent annual subscription fee of $1500. These funds will augment the financial support provided to this important program by CRL, its 242 U.S. and Canadian research libraries, and its other funders.
• Content Type: Websites, Newspapers

WAML Projects Scanning Clearinghouse

• URL(s): http://www.viatime.org/waml/sea.php
• Creator of Registry: Western Association of Map Libraries
• About/Description: This Clearinghouse is an effort to create a union list of map digitization projects.
• Numbers of collections/objects (however they count): 69
• How to contribute: Instructions: http://www.waml.org/clearinghouse.html
• Content Type: Primarily digital map collections

Pub Med Central

• URL(s): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
• Creator of Registry: NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• About/Description: PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
• Numbers of collections/objects (however they count):
• How to contribute: Instructions: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/pubinfo.html
• Content Type: journal literature

OAIster

• URL(s):http://www.oclc.org/oaister/
• Creator of Registry: DLF/OCLC
• About/Description: Searches across OAI repositories for items
• Numbers of collections/objects (however they count): 25 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors.
• How to contribute:
• Content Type: Anything exposed via OAI PMH

DigitalMETRO

• URL(s):http://nycdigital.org/
• Creator of Registry: METRO New York Library Council
• About/Description: a directory of digital collections created and maintained by members of the Metropolitan New York Library Council
• Numbers of collections/objects (however they count): 138 collections
• How to contribute:
• Content Type: Digital Collections from the New York Metro area

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

• URL(s): http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/
• Creator of Registry: University of California, Los Angeles Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• About/Description: Listing of fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web.
• Numbers of collections/objects (however they count): 24 U.S. repositories listed
• How to contribute: Use "Suggest a site" link
• Content Type: Images

Alabama Digital Preservation Network

• URL(s): http://www.adpn.org/
• Creator of Registry: Network of Alabama Academic Libraries
• About/Description: A LOCKSS-based distributed digital preservation network for digital content created by academic institutions, state agencies, and cultural heritage organizations in Alabama.
• Numbers of collections/objects (however they count): 15 collections from 6 partners
• How to contribute: Any Alabama institution with digital collections that are freely available to the public is invited to join ADPNet and use the network for archival preservation.
• Content Type: Images, Audio/Visual

Florida Digital Archive

• URL(s): http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/
• Creator of Registry: Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA)
• About/Description: a long-term preservation repository for the use of the public university system of Florida
• Numbers of collections/objects (however they count): As of Mar. 1, 2009, FDA had 96,127 Packages, 9,553,399 Files, and 19,641,685,005,62 Bytes.
• How to contribute: Through an FCLA-Library Agreement. Information available at http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/daInfo.htm
• Content Type: http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/formatInfo.htm