[Madam Broshkina]

From the introduction:

[FONT=&quot]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

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