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The Project Gutenberg eBook, ERPANET Case Study: Project Gutenberg, by ERPANET This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** Title: ERPANET Case Study: Project Gutenberg Author: ERPANET Release Date: January 4, 2005 [eBook #14585] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ERPANET CASE STUDY: PROJECT GUTENBERG*** Copyright (C) ERPANET 2004 ERPANET Case Study: Project Gutenberg Table of Contents Executive Summary 4 Chapter 1: The ERPANET Project 5 Chapter 2: Scope of the Case Studies 6 Chapter 3: Method of Working 8 Chapter 4: Project Gutenberg 9 Chapter 5: Details and circumstances of the Interviews 10 Chapter 6: Analysis 11 Perception and Awareness of Digital Preservation 11 Preservation Activity 12 Compliance Monitoring 14 Digital Preservation Costs 14 Future Outlook 14 Chapter 7: Conclusions 16 Executive Summary Project Gutenberg is the first and largest collection of eBooks made freely available to the public. The project philosophy is that the greatest value of computers is not their computing power, but rather their potential for the searchable storage and retrieval of library materials. The premise for the project is that any object - whether text, picture, sound or 3D image - that can be entered into a computer can be replicated indefinitely. The eBooks generated by Project Gutenberg are stored on two main servers and can then be downloaded to local servers around the world. This case study differs form many other ERPANET studies in that the project is volunteer-driven. As such, there are no financial or business incentives to preserve the eBooks. The real in
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