Danish Legal Deposit

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Danish Legal Deposit

• Experiences the Need for Adjustments
• by Birgit N. Henriksen
• Head of Digitization and Web Department
• The Royal Library, Denmark

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Presentation outline

• The modernised legal deposit law from 1997 and
  the system that supports the law
• Categories of materials not collected
• The need for adjustments in the legal deposit law

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The Danish Legal Deposit Law

• 1697 All printers in royal and ducal lands must
  deposit
• 1703 Only printers in Copenhagen have to deposit
• 1781 All printers in royal and ducal lands must
  deposit
• 1902 All printed materials to be deposited
• 1927 Posters and some types of ephemera excluded
• 1997 All published works to be deposited

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Purpose

• 1697 free copies for the absolute monarch to
  exchange with his royal colleagues
• 1781 adornment of the nation and the monarch
• 1821, 1832, 1902, 1927
• implicit strengthening of national feeling
• 1997 preservation of the national cultural
  heritage

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The modernised law covers

• any work published in Denmark regardless of
  medium
• work a delimited quantity of information which
  must be considered a final and independent unit
• published when copies of the work have been
  placed on sale or otherwise distributed to the
  public

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Types of Net Publications

• Static included (only periodically updated)
• monographs
• periodicals
• Dynamic excluded (continuously updated)
• Databases
• homepages

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www.pligtaflevering.dk
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New Search Facility
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How do we get the material?

• Download based on notification
• NOT
• Harvesting the Danish domain
• Delivery of works (a collection of files) from
  the individual publishers

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Domain names in .dk domain
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Volume in archived material
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Monographs vs Periodicals
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Public vs. Private Publishers
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Staff resources
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MimeType Statistics of collected files
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Download Problems

• Segments of programs like java and client-side
  elements such as java scripts in the documents,
  may make them difficult or impossible to download
  or view after download
• Errors or inconsistencies in the published files

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Three generations using the internet
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The modifications from 1902

• Brochures and advertisements
• Catalogues
• Election campaign material
• Club/organisation magazines
• Songs
• Scouting magazines, church newsletters
• Maps
• Portraits
• Art prints

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Gains if harvesting is used

• Better coverage of Denmark outside the public
  sphere
• Updated versions also for static publications
• New trends on the net as soon as they appear

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Reading up documents with speech synthesis
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Why not only harvesting

• Harvesting is not always possible (e.g.. streamed
  and webcasted material)
• Harvesting may not give a useful result
• - technical problems (java, java script,
  interactive sites)
• - personalised sites
• Harvesting may not always give the best format
  for long-time preservation

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Net Art
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Archive for Danish Literature

• www.adl.dk
• All full texts are structured in XML on work
  level
• The XML is loaded to a database
• The database performs the web publishing in
  well-formed HTML on a page level

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Needed Adjustments

• Expansion of the scope of the legal deposit law
  so
• all Danish material can be harvested from the
  net without prior agreements with the producers
• Still retain the possibility of
• depositing the digital basis for electronic
  publishing
• selective collecting

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