Can We Digitize This? Understanding Law, Policy, Ethics in Bringing Our Collections to Digital Life
Channel: Office of Scholarly Communication Services
Date: 2020-08-10

As part of the Digital Lifecycle Program, the UC Berkeley Library aims to digitize 200 million items from its special collections (rare books, manuscripts, photographs, archives, and ephemera) for the world to discover and use. But before we can digitize and publish them online for worldwide access, we have to sort out legal and ethical questions. We’ve created and released "responsible access workflows" that will benefit not only our Library’s digitization efforts, but also those of cultural heritage institutions such as museums, archives, and libraries throughout the nation.

This is a presentation by members of the Digital Lifecycle Program working group to the UC Berkeley Library on August 10, 2020.