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Lebert, Marie: Technology and Books for All. v1, 30 Oct 2008
From the introduction:
[FONT="]Many of us dream of a universal digital library freely available on the web, i.e. available anywhere and at any time. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive and others, we are getting there, at least for the books from public domain. The process began a while ago with a few pioneers - It is running at full speed now. We still need to see copyright issues worked out in order to provide free access to as many works as possible. We still need large scale knowledge-building projects to get reliable reference, scholarly and educational content. We still need better quality OCR technology and in the future, go back to the original image files to provide a higher quality book. We still need more efforts, there are currently 25 million books belonging to the public domain and as of mid-2007, just over 2 million freely available on the internet. The collections of existing digital libraries increase regularly, and new digital libraries come up constantly.[/FONT] Includes: 1968: ASCII 1971: PROJECT GUTENBERG 1974: INTERNET 1977: UNIMARC 1984: COPYLEFT 1990: WEB 1991: UNICODE 1993: ONLINE BOOKS PAGE 1993: PDF 1994: LIBRARY WEBSITES 1994: BOLD PUBLISHERS 1995: AMAZON.COM 1995: ONLINE PRESS 1996: INTERNET ARCHIVE 1996: NEW WAYS OF TEACHING 1996: PALM PILOT 1997: DIGITAL PUBLISHING 1997: LOGOS DICTIONARY 1997: MULTIMEDIA CONVERGENCE 1998: ONLINE BEOWULF 1998: DIGITAL LIBRARIANS 1998: MULTILINGUAL WEB 1999: DIGITAL AUTHORS 1999: YOURDICTIONARY.COM 1999: OPEN EBOOK 2000: ONLINE BIBLE OF GUTENBERG 2000: DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS 2000: PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE 2001: WIKIPEDIA 2002: MIT OPENCOURSEWARE 2004: CREATIVE COMMONS 2004: PROJECT GUTENBERG EUROPE 2005: OPEN CONTENT ALLIANCE 2006: MICROSOFT LIVE SEARCH BOOKS 2006: FREE WORLDCAT 2007: CITIZENDIUM 2007: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE This work is assumed to be in the Life+70 public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. Copyright laws differ throughout the world, and it may still be under copyright in some countries. Before downloading, please check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work.
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10-30-2008, 08:51 PM
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Now you lishen here...
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Looks interesting. Thanks MB!
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