> Search am 14.10.10
> Posted by James Crawford, engineering director, Google Books
>
> This morning I'll be speaking on the topic of the present and future of
> Google Books at the Europeana Open Culture conference at
> Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. Now as much as ever, our shared vision
> of bringing all the incredible content stored in the world's books
> online depends on working with libraries, publishers, authors and book
> lovers.
>
> Europeana is a digital library initiated by the European Commission to
> bring together digitization projects from around the continent.
> Europeana works with European libraries, archives, and museums to
> collect and make easily accessible the books, music, film and art that
> make up Europe's cultural heritage. It is an important project, and it
> shows that around the world, public and private bodies see the value of
> digitization in order to provide broad access to our shared cultural
> heritage.
>
> To date, working with library and publisher partners around the world,
> we have scanned more than 15 million books from more than 100 countries
> in over 400 languages as part of the Google Books project we started in
> 2004. The greater the diversity of content on the web, the more useful
> it becomes. And the more people who can access the information
> cataloged in books, the more enlightening those works become.
>
> - Abonnieren von Google Book Search Blog mit Google Reader
>
fine blog. fine reader.
>
> [Die Teile dieser Nachricht, die nicht aus Text bestanden, wurden entfernt]
>
i like it :)
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und im kontext zu einer spannenden diskussion in inetbib zu metis, vg
wort, ojs, ...
... noch diese info:
Noch immer wird über die Digitalisierung von Büchern gestritten. Vor
allem weil die Rechtslage noch nicht vollständig geklärt ist. Um
Deutschlands literarisches Erbe Online zu stellen, hat sich die Seite
Europeana mit der VG Wort auf ein Modell geeinigt. Das hat allerdings
einen Hauch von Sozialismus. …
http://www.welt.de/kultur/article5004877/Literatur-kann-man-gut-ohne-Google-digitalisieren.html
... 2511 via vöb
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wem fokus gefällt, dem könnte auch cc42 gefallen. imho. k.
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MfG, Karl Dietz
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