“Fresh Meadows, NY, January 5, 2023–Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), an industry leader in structured data and content transformations, and The New York Public Library (NYPL), the second largest library in the US—second only to the Library of Congress—will speak at Digital Book World in New York City on January 17. Greg Cram, Associate General Counsel and Director, Information Policy at NYPL and Mark Gross, President at DCL, will present a case study that details how NYPL with the support of DCL has digitized historical records of the US Copyright Office, making those records searchable, accessible, and useful for new product development and more.
Data extraction combined with well-structured content is being used to enrich the Catalog of Copyright Entries to create an important resource for the world. Each year, millions of people interact with the NYPL’s digital content, including databases, online classes and programs, digitized collections items (including manuscripts and photographs), and more. The new addition of digitized records from the US Copyright Office will add another element, giving the public the ability to discover content, narrow search results, identify relevant records, and view both machine-readable text and an image of the printed record….”