What digital material do we collect?
The range of digital material in the Library is already considerable. It includes:
- Digital publications that come to the Library via Voluntary Deposit agreements, such as journals and interactive multimedia on CD-ROM
- Disks that accompany print publications
- Networked/online publications sent by email or file transfer protocol
- Special collections material such as manuscript collections containing email, disks, tapes of all types and even computers
- Digitisation projects producing images and interactive products: for example 'Turning the Pages'
- Websites
- Audio (See British Library Sound Archive)
- Geographic information system data (GIS) from the Ordnance Survey
- Digital images, including those taken as part of the documentation of conservation treatments
