NDSA:Existing Registry Projects
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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:
- 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
- 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):
- Creator of Registry:
- About/Description:
- Numbers of collections/objects (however they count):
- How to contribute:
- Content Type:
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.
- 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
- URL(s):
- Creator of Registry:
- About/Description:
- Numbers of collections/objects (however they count):
- How to contribute:
- Content Type: