DESCRIPTION OF
POTENTIAL TEXT DIGITIZATION PROJECT

Selector:	Lisa Fish

Holding Library:	 Geoscience

      Collection Title (Please Provide a Name for this Project):  Expedition Reports

1.	Nature of Digitization Project 
a.	Briefly describe the materials to be digitized, including their subject or discipline-related content, chronological or geographical coverage, languages and character sets, etc. 
Ocean voyage expedition reports from the 19th and early 20th century. Languages are English, German, Danish, Swedish, French, Norwegian, Croatian and Russian.  
b.	[Optional: Indicate whether the project assumes external funding or should be considered for accomplishing in-house with existing staff resources; indicate too whether the project might be considered a demonstration project for the purposes of attracting funding for a larger project.]
Would require outside funding and might be considered as a collaborative project with institutions holding complementary expedition report collections
c.	Describe the priority this project has relative to other possible projects in your area by selecting one of the following options:
___ Immediate  ___ Short-Term  ___ Medium-Term  __X_ Long-Term
2.	Scope of Digitization
a.	Specify the types/genres and amount of material to be digitized (e.g., 10 volumes amounting to ca. 1800 pages of text, ca. 100 volumes amounting to ca. 30,000 pages of text with many black and white illustrations,  2 folio volumes of ca. 400 pages with ca. 150 oversized color images)  
Many maps, illustrations, plates and fold-outs.  ~200  vols. (pages of text hard to estimate, perhaps 50,000)
b.	For textual materials, indicate whether they will be also need to be OCR'd and presented as searchable text, or whether page images only are needed. 
Would need to be OCR’d  where possible.
c.	[Optional :For other materials, please indicate any requirements or assumptions about the quality of scans, derivatives, indexing, etc.]
Illustration scanning would require high quality.
3.	Value to Columbia Libraries Collections
a.	How would this project strengthen, complement or otherwise relate to existing paper (etc.) or digital collections at CUL?   
This is a historic collection and a digitization project would preserve the information in these publications and make it much more accessible.
b.	Does this material relate to the collection development policies of the holding library or the Libraries as a whole?
Yes.
c.	Are there other comparable or related digital collections already available publicly?  
None that I know.
4.	Value to Columbia Research & Teaching 
a.	How would this project serve current, recognized research, study or curricular needs of Columbia?
It wouldn’t be of immediate service; this material is little used at this time.
b.	Which Columbia faculty members work in the area covered by this project?   Have they indicated they would make use of these materials, or materials of this type, in digitized form?
Many Lamont-Doherty affiliated research scientists and faculty members of the Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science.  These materials are little used at this time, in part because they are locked up.  No one has indicated they would use the material were it in digital form.   
5.	Partnerships
a.	Are there other Columbia groups that we can or should partner with in this type of project?
Possibly fund raising personnel.
b.	Are there other institutions that are particularly strong in these or related materials that we can or should partner with?
Possibly the Smithsonian, American Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Institution or the Linda Hall Library (has a strong focus on the history of science).  Also, the voyage sponsoring bodies responsible for the creation of these reports (in other countries), if they still exist.
6.	Scope of Cataloging 
a.	Have these materials been cataloged, described in a finding aid, or have another kind of metadata? Please describe and include links to cataloging or finding aids if available.
AKE8541 (40 v. in 44) 		Q115 .C35 
Great Britain. Challenger Office.
  Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of Captain George S. Nares ... and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. Prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson ... and now of John Murray ... Published by order of Her Majesty's government. -- <Edinburgh> Printed for H.M. Stationery off. <by Neill and company> 1880-95.
AKE8583 (10v. Inc.) 		Q115 .J61
John Murray Expedition (1933-1934)
  Scientific reports. -- London, Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1935-
AUX8239 (37 v.) 			G860 .D63
Discovery reports. v. 1-37; 1929-1980. -- London, New York, Cambridge University Press.

AKE8551 (10v. - Inc.)		Q115 .D484
Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia (1898-1899)
  Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. Im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern hrsg. von Carl Chun <et al.> -- Jena, G. Fischer, 1902-40.
AKE8553 (16v. in 19)		Q115  .D485
Deutsche Atlantische Expedition (1925-1927)
  Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse, hrsg. im Auftrage der Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft von Albert Defant. -- Berlin, W. de Gruyter, 1932-63.
 AKE8624 (6v. in 11)		Q115  .V19
Vaillant, Auguste Nicolas, 1793-1858.
  Voyage autour du monde execute pendant les annees 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette la Bonite, commandee par M. Vaillant, captaine de vaisseau, pub. par ordre du roi sous les auspices du Departement de la marine ... -- Paris, A. Bertrand, 1840-66.
AUF7549 (63v.)			QC801  .H3
Deutsche Seewarte.
  Aus dem Archiv der Deutschen Seewarte. Began with v. 1, 1878; ceased with v.57, no. 3. Cf. Union list of serials. -- Hamburg.
AHJ8012 (  )			Q115  .S6 1933g and 551.96  K95
Snellius-Expedition (1929-1930)
  The Snellius expedition in the eastern part of the Netherlands East-Indies, 1929-1930, under the leadership of P. M. Van Riel. -- Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1933-
ANU2218 (3v.)			GC63  .D22
Danish Oceanographical Expeditions (1908-1910).
  Report. Pub. at the cost of the Carlsberg Fund under the superintendence of Johs. Schmidt. -- Copenhagen, A.F. Host, 1912-
ACG5177 (   ) 			Q115 .At64
Atlantide report; scientific results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of   Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946. no. 1-     1950- -- Copenhagen, 1950-
AKE8545 ( )			Q115  .C19
Carlsbergfondets oceanografiske ekspedition omkring jorden (1928-1930)
  Dana-report / the Carlsberg Foundation's Oceanographical Expedition Round the World 1928-30 and previous "Dana"-expeditions, under the leadership of the late Professor Johannes Schmidt. -- Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzels ; London : Oxford University Press, 1932-1991.
AKE8530 (  )			Q115  .B45
Bergens Museum.
  Report on the scientific results of the "Michael Sars" north Atlantic deep-sea expedition 1910, carried out under the auspices of the Norwegian government and the superintendence of Sir John Murray, K.C.B., and Dr. Johan Hjort ... -- Bergen, The Trustees of the Bergen museum <1914-
AKE8598 (7v.)			Q115  N81
Den Norske Nordhavs-expedition, 1876-1878. -- Christiania, Grondahl & sons   bogtrykkeri, 1880-1901.
AKE8622 (  )			Q115 .Sv25
Svenska sydpolarexpeditionen (1901-1903)

Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Sudpolar-Expedition, 1901-1903 / unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Fachgenossen herausgegeben von Otto Nordenskjold, Leiter der Expedition. -- Stockholm : Lithographisches Institut des Generalstabs, 1908-

AKL0711 (11v. Inc.)		Q115 Sv253 and 551.46 Sw34
Svenska djuphavsexpeditionen (1947-1948)
  Reports of the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition, 1947-1948, edited by Hans Pettersson, Nils Jerlov <and> Borje Kullenberg. -- Stockholm, Sponsored and distributed by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council <1966; i.e. 1951-66; v. 1, 1957>
APE7621 (3v.) 			982 F497
Finnische Expedition nach Patagonien (1937-1938)
  Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Finnischen Expedition nach Patagonien 1937-38 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Vaino Auer. Sammlung von Sonderbdrucken. -- Helsinki, 1941-
APU6230 (6v. in 9 Inc.)		GC661 Sp56
Institut za oceanografiju i ribarstvo (Split, Croatia)
  Izvjesca = Reports / Institut za oceanografiju i ribaarstvo. -- Split : Institut.
ACH0037 (65v. Inc.) 		G860 So89
Trudy Sovetskoi antarkticheskoi ekspeditsii. t. 1-   1959- -- Leningrad, Morskoi transport.
AKE8531 (5v.) 			Q115 C21
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism.       Scientific results of cruise vii of the Carnegie during 1928-1929 under the command of Captain J. P. Ault. Biology ... -- Washington, D. C., 1942- (Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication 536-537, 542, 555,565.)
AKE8537 (1v.)			Q115  .C211
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism. Scientific results of cruise VII of the Carnegie during 1928-1929 under command of Captain J. P. Ault. Chemistry. -- Washington, D. C., 1944- (Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication 562)

AKE8539 (2v.) 			Q115 .C212
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism.   Scientific results of cruise VII of the Carnegie during 1928-1929 under command of Captain J.P. Ault. Meteorology ... -- Washington, D.C., 1943. (Carnegie Institution of Washington. Publication 544, 547)
AKE8540 (4v.) 			Q115 .C213
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism.   Scientific results of cruise vii of the Carnegie during 1928-1929 under command of Captain J.P. Ault. Oceanography. -- Washington, D. C. 1944-46. (Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication 545, 556, 568, 571)
Q115 .C23 
590.8 Ex6 (8v.)
b.	[Optional:  If not, please give details of type and amount of cataloging / description being proposed within the context of this grant and how it would be accomplished.]
7.	Rights / Permissions
a.	Identify copyright issues and other potential restrictions. Are these materials in the public domain? Does Columbia hold rights for copying and dissemination?  (If you are not sure of the answers to the preceding, what percentage of the material was published prior to 1923?  What percentage between 1923 and 1963?)
b.	[Optional: Describe approach to resolving or managing these restrictions within the context of the project.]
8.	Physical Condition 
a.	Are the physical items intact, in good condition, and playable (where appropriate, e.g. videotapes)? 
All this material is in brittle condition.
b.	[Optional: If not, describe in general terms what types of physical problems are present.]
c.	Are the materials appropriately housed, or will rehousing be part of the project?
Materials are held primarily in the Geoscience Library, some is in Geology.
d.	[Optional: Will any conservation treatment or other physical work be needed to enable the materials to be digitized? For instance, it may not be possible to digitize a book that is tightly bound and has narrow margins without disbinding it.]
e.	For archival and manuscript collections, have the materials been fully processed and arranged?