On 20 Dic 2007, 21:11, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Online library reaches million book milestone
>
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> | The Universal Library Project is the brainchild of researchers at Carnegie
> | Mellon University, and has received $3.5 million in seed funding from the
> | National Science Foundation. The project has also received in-kind
> | contributions from the Zhejiang University in China and the Indian Institute
> | of Science in India that have been valued at $10 million each, and has more
> | recently forged a partnership with the Library at Alexandria in Egypt.
> `----
>
> http://www.linux.com/feature/123255
>
> Watch the references at the bottom. Microsoft is using the British taxpayers
> and government as agents of monopolisation by making old books (national
> assets) Microsoft Windows-only. Revolting.
>
> Related:
>
> China's Ancient Treasures Go Digital
>
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> | Hundreds of workers at museums, academic institutions and government
> | offices in Taiwan are contributing to the National Digital Archives
> | project. The research institute Academia Sinica, for example, is
> | leading the software and database development effort, mainly
> | using Linux and MySQL.
> `----
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132439-c,sites/article.html
>
> Microlibraries Project: 20,000+ books available on demand
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) has organized
> | the Microlibraries Project, making over 20,000 Project Gutenberg
> | books available at minimal cost through a simple print-on-demand
> | system.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | The entire library can be accessed here. The software used to
> | convert these books is open source, and will be available soon.
> `----
>
> http://www.computers.net/2007/02/microlibraries_.html
>
> Publish And Perish
>
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> | Alexander Rose, the executive director of the futurist Long Now
> | Foundation, worries about the impermanence of digital information.
> | "If you save that computer for 100 years, will the electrical plugs
> | look the same?" he asks. "The Mac or the PC--will they be around?
> | If they are, what about the software? " So far there's no business
> | case for digital preservation--in fact, for software makers like
> | Microsoft, planned obsolescence is the plan.
> |
> | "The reality is that it's in companies' interest that software should
> | become obsolete and that you should have to buy every upgrade,"
> | Rose says. We could be on the cusp of a turning point, though, in the
> | way businesses and their customers think about digital preservation.
> | "Things will start to change when people start losing all of their personal
> | photos," Rose said.
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>
> http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/30/books-information-preservation-tech-...http://tinyurl.com/yyjqoh
>
> Message-ID: <52e0v4-ur2....@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: "[H]omer" <s...@xxxxxxx>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
> Subject: [News] [Rights] Open Content Alliance digitises libraries using
> Free Formats
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:39:46 +0100
>
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> | Internet Archive Challenges Google
> |
> | .----
> | | richards1052 writes "The Internet Archive, whose main claim to
> | | fame is the Wayback Machine, designed to archive the internet's web
> | | history, has created a new project: the Open Content Alliance. It's
> | | purpose is to open the nation's library collections to universal
> | | web search. A number of major library systems, including the Boston
> | | Public Library and Smithsonian, have refused to sign up with
> | | competing ventures by Microsoft and Google because they do not
> | | provide for universal access to digitized books. These commercial
> | | ventures prohibit books being accessed by competing search engines.
> | | So far, 80 libraries and research institutions have signed on with
> | | Open Content Alliance. They must pay for the scanning of their
> | | books while Google and Microsoft offset that cost for their
> | | participating institutions."
> | `----
> |
> |http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/22/139202
> |
> |
> | Related:
> |
> | Microsoft "saves" British National Library and National Archive from
> | "Digital Dark-age" which /it/ created, using false "open" standards:
> |
> | Defending against the digital dark age
> |
> | .----
> | | Rather than making Microsoft appear heroic about a problem that it
> | | had contributed to, the release highlighted a bigger issue that
> | | goes to the heart of digital preservation. As well as using the
> | | Virtual PC 2007 software to emulate older versions of Microsoft
> | | software, the NA also commented on its ongoing work to convert
> | | documents into open file formats. Mentioned as it was in a
> | | Microsoft press release, some concluded that this meant the NA
> | | planned to adopt Microsoft's Open XML document format, which has
> | | been criticised by open-source advocates for not being very open at
> | | all.
> | |
> | | "If it were, Microsoft wouldn't need to make Novell and Xandros and
> | | Linspire sign NDAs and then write translators for them," wrote
> | | Pamela Jones, open-source expert and editor of the Groklaw blog.
> | `----
> |
> |http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,39288099,...
> |
> |
> | 100,000 books freed by the IA
> |
> | .----
> | | Milestone Achieved
> | |
> | | The Internet Archive announced on December 20, 2006 that it had
> | | achived a milestone in having digitized and made available to date,
> | | a total of 100,000 books on its servers. The bulk of these books
> | | are from members of the Open Content Alliance. All are available
> | | without restriction to public access and enjoyment. A copy of the
> | | press release can be seen at the right. Within hours of the
> | | release, over 60 news organizations had picked up the AP newswire
> | | story. Congratulations to all!
> | `----
> |
> |http://www.opencontentalliance.org/
> |
> |
> | Those 100,000 texts can be found here:
> |
> |http://www.archive.org/details/texts
> |
> | Uses TXT, HTML, and an online interactive format called Flipbook, which
> | is an Ajax standards-based viewer that works in any standards compliant
> | browser, without the need for a plugin:
> |
> | .----
> | | Internet Archive's Flipbook viewer
> | |
> | | Roy Tennant on Web4Lib pointed out a blog posting by one of the
> | | developers of Flipbook, the Internet Archive's new Ajax-based page
> | | turner for its OpenLibrary. This type of page turner is not unique
> | | -- the British Library has had one for some time -- but it's great to
> | | see new implementations of it.
> | `----
> |
> |http://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/?p=236
> |
> |
> | Unfortunately, the British Library's implementation is /not/ quite so
> | standards compliant:
> |
> | .----
> | | Turning the Pages(tm) uses the Shockwave plug-in, which can be
> | | downloaded from the Adobe website, to simulate the action of
> | | turning the pages of a real book. For Mac OS X users there is an
> | | alternative download. The volumes may not open if you block popups
> | | on your computer.
> | |
> | | NEW! A new version, called Turning the Pages 2.0(tm), has been
> | | developed for the Microsoft Vista operating system and was launched
> | | on 30 January. It will also run on Windows XP with the .NET 3
> | | framework. Find out if you have the necessary software and hardware
> | | now.
> | `----
> |
> |http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
> |
> |
> | There's an "accessibility" area for those who choose not to use
> | Microsoft's Slopware, with static content only.
> |
> |
> | The IA's Open Content can also be downloaded in various formats,
> | including this rather interesting Book Format, called DjVu:
> |
> |http://djvu.sourceforge.net/abstract.html
> |
> | Cross-platform and GPL licensed, unlike Microsoft's "Turning the Pages".
> |
> |
> | And let's not forget the one that started it all - Project Gutenberg,
> | which began in 1971 by Michael Hart as a community project to make plain
> | text versions of books available freely to all:
> |
> |http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
> |
> | Provides texts in Free Formats, unlike Microsoft's "Turning the Pages".
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