Anybody know about the accessibility of this effort? Kathie
Katherine Schneider, Ph.D.
Senior Psychologist, Emerita
Counseling Service
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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Subject: Internet and Technology News Microsoft Joins Book Search Plan
BBC NEWS
Microsoft joins book search plan
Microsoft has joined a Yahoo-backed effort to digitise the world's books
and
other
works to make them searchable and accessible to anyone online. The
software giant said it would work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA),
set up
by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online. The move
comes as Google faces growing legal pressure from publishers over
its own
global digital library plans.
Microsoft said it would initially focus on works already in the public
domain.
This way, it hopes to avoid similar legal issues over copyright. Google
said in a statement that it welcomed the move to make more
information accessible
to anyone online.
Legal trouble
Earlier this month, the Association of American Publishers filed a
lawsuit
in New
York claiming Google's Print Library Project plans would infringe their
copyrights.
If we go and bring universal access to all human knowledge it will be
remembered
as one of the great things humankind has ever done
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
Google's project would involve digitising millions of works from
Harvard,
Stanford,
and Michigan universities to make them searchable.
Once the texts were digitised, users would not be able to download or
print
the whole
book, but would be able to view a few sentences from each. Copyright
holders have been given a deadline of 1 November if they do not
want their
books to be scanned.
Search plans
US libraries which have joined the separate OCA's library project
include
Columbia
University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Virginia, and the
University
of Pittsburgh.
The OCA was set up by a group of digital archivists and is backed by
technology firms
Adobe and HP, as well as libraries and academia.
It aims to find ways of balancing publisher and author rights with
global
accessibility.
"It's interesting to see everyone jumping on the digital library
bandwagon,"
said
Doron Weber from the Sloan Foundation, part-funders of the Internet
Archive
which
set up the OCA.
"Google's push has galvanized everyone else."
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, said the OCA's digital
library plans
were ambitious.
"If we go and bring universal access to all human knowledge it will be
remembered
as one of the great things humankind has ever done," Mr Kahle said.
Microsoft said it was already liaising with publishers and libraries on
ways
to make
more copyrighted works available for online searches.
A spokeswoman said the firm was still investigating different ways to do
this, which
could include charging to access content.
Microsoft said it would have a prototype of its library search service
ready
next
year.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/4377984.stm
Published: 2005/10/26 11:43:28 GMT
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