In the interest of speeding this along, it seems like one thing we could add
to the contract would be something like the following:
At such point in time as the UO Libraries may need to make use of the
archived data, Thompson Gale agrees to supply another copy of the data in a
contemporary format if the SLDT tapes are unreadable for any reason.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-diglib@lists.uoregon.edu
[mailto:owner-diglib@lists.uoregon.edu]On Behalf Of Faye Chadwell
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:28 PM
To: diglib@lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: diglib: Fwd: ECCO/MOML tape format
See below for info about the tape format. Comments? Rantings?
Faye
>Reply-To: <mrwatson@uoregon.edu>
>From: "Mark Watson" <mrwatson@uoregon.edu>
>To: <chadwelf@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
>Subject: ECCO tape format (was: FW: University of Oregon -- ECCO
>Contracting Documents)
>
>Faye:
>
>Here is the tape format info. Hope this is what we need.
>
>Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vincent.Vessalo@thomson.com [mailto:Vincent.Vessalo@thomson.com]
>Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:39 AM
>To: Anne.Clark@thomson.com; mrwatson@uoregon.edu
>Cc: Karen.Bailey@thomson.com
>Subject: RE: University of Oregon -- ECCO Contracting Documents
>
>
>Hello Mark,
>
>I must start with the fact that we are thrilled to be progressing, and
>you have done extremely well in the pricing - very much a win win for
>all!
>
>Per the tapes, for both the Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)
>and the Making of Modern Law, Legal Treatises, (MOML) both come on SDLT
>Tapes (Super Data Linear Tapes) and they are formatted in XML (extensive
>markup language) with images, which is the underlying digitized
>collection. Importantly, we further provide the full collection of PDF
>images and the full metadata for each volume (which is typically the
>information you will see in the "Full-Citation" for each volume.
>
>ECCO comprises approximately 1.5 terabytes of data, and MOML
>approximately .75 terabytes of data.
>
>I hope this helps, and please advise if more extensive information needs
>exist for more detailed information on this.
>
>Regards,
>
>Vince Vessalo
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Clark, Anne (Gale)
>Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:15 PM
>To: Vessalo, Vincent (Gale)
>Subject: FW: University of Oregon -- ECCO Contracting Documents
>
>Can you provide this or does Ray?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Watson [mailto:mrwatson@uoregon.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:14 PM
>To: mrwatson@uoregon.edu; Bailey, Karen (Gale)
>Cc: Clark, Anne (Gale)
>Subject: RE: University of Oregon -- ECCO Contracting Documents
>
>Karen, Anne:
>
>Nice to chat with you. A follow up question from Faye. Is there
>someone who could give us a description of the tapes and format the data
>will come in?
>
>Thanks, Mark
>
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