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I would like to learn more about different practical models for creating access to born-digital materials, including those in hybrid collections. How is access provided in the reading room? Is description of born-digital materials integrated with that of analog materials? How are access policies and procedures, such as those related to making copies, managed? I would be interested to know whether other institutions have experimented with online remote access (whether open or restricted to registered users). While creating greater access, this is not appropriate for every type of collection and it brings about its own set of issues related to: intellectual-property and privacy rights (including those of third parties); scalability; infrastructure; and, in the case of hybrid collections, providing differential levels of access to different forms of materials in the same collection.

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Catherine Stollar Peters, University at Albany

I would like to discuss data mining and visualization techniques that can be used to access digital archives.  What tools exist/are people using to access information in digital archive in novel ways? How can these tools decrease the amount of manual description required for digital records? Recently, I spoke to a researcher at GE where their preservation strategy is to keep everything and invest in search and retrieval, data mining, and visualization. Can we learn anything from researchers in industry who take a different perspective on digital curation?