Application to Create a CONTENTdm Collection

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1. How will this collection support the St. Olaf College Curriculum?

2. Do you have, or anticipate having, funding to cover the expenses of this project? (i.e., department budget, grant, etc.)

   • Yes
   • No

3. Who do you anticipate using your collection?

   • Faculty
   • Students
   • Alumni
   • General Public
   • Other:

4. Do you own copyright for these materials?

   • Yes
   • No — If not, how will you obtain rights?

5. The following questions cover Fair Use. Please check all that apply for each Fair Use question. (See Statute)

   1. Fair Use: Purpose: Nonprofit, educational, and personal uses are generally favored fair uses while commercial uses are less likely to be deemed fair use. (description)

      • Commercial Activity
      • No attribution to original authors
      • Profiting from use
      • For publication
      • For public distribution

   2. Fair Use: Nature: Factual works, published works and scientific articles that are factual in nature are more likely to be considered available for fair use than are creative, imaginative, artistic, or unpublished works. (description)

      • Unpublished work — work not previously published
      • Creative, imaginitive, artistic work — not factual in nature
      • Consumable work — once used is unusable by others

   3. Fair Use: Amount: The statute gives no bright line indication concerning how much of a work may be used under fair use but the implication is that use of the whole work is less likely to be considered a fair use. (description)

      • Entire work — not an excerpt
      • Portion used is "heart of work" — size or amount of material excerpted is problematic

   4. Fair Use: Market Effect: Generally the consideration for this factor is whether or not there is some economic harm to the owner of the copyright as a result of your use. (description)

      • Impairs market for original work — interrupts a business model due to lost sales of work
      • Repeated use, when market exists for work — should the work be purchased every semester it is used
      • Licensing mechanism for use is available — an existing license is being violated
      • Multiple copies, not for educational purpose
6. Please estimate the number of images in your collection
   (If you are planning to scan text pages, each page counts as an image.)

7. This collection will be

   • finite/fixed
   • ongoing/growing

8. If you already have scanned images:

   What format are they in?
   How much disc space to they currently use?

9. If not yet digitized, what is your plan for digitizing?

   • outsource
   • student workers
   • yourself
   • other:

10. What is the current format of the items you want included? (Check as many as apply)

    • text (i.e., books)
    • scanned text (i.e., digitized text)
    • scanned text w/ OCR (i.e., digitized text formatted to be searched by a computer)
    • photograph (physical print on paper)
    • digital images
    • slides
    • other:

11. Do you currently have information about your images (metadata) stored in Excel or another database? (i.e., Titles for images, author information, descriptive information, etc.)

    • Yes — If yes, describe:
    • No

12. Which of these items do you currently have access to?

    • CD/DVD burner
    • Computer w/ optimal specs (1.5GHz CPU; 1GB RAM; 500GB HD)
    • Digital Camera
    • Excel
    • External hard drive
    • OCR software
    • Photoshop (full version)
    • Scanner: flatbed
    • Scanner: overhead
    • Scanner: slide