[bksvol-discuss] Re: YAHOO ANNOUNCES BOOK-SCANNING PROJECT
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 22:17:03 -0700 (PDT)
The article about yahoo scanning books is interesting.
I wonder if the books will be proofread or just
scanned and put on the 'Net. Project Gutenberg has
been doing that for a number of years. I wonder what
if anything will make the yahoo project any better.
Cindy
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> > TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 03, 2005
> > Yahoo Announces Book-Scanning Project
> > LAMS Foundation Launches Community Web Site
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> > Digital Music Sales Surge
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> > YAHOO ANNOUNCES BOOK-SCANNING PROJECT
> > Yahoo has announced a plan to scan large
> collections of texts into an
> > online digital archive, though officials said
> their approach differs in
> > important ways from Google's similar venture,
> which has drawn
> > extensive criticism and legal action. Yahoo's
> initiative, called the
> > Open Content Alliance (OCA), represents a
> partnership with the
> > University of California, the University of
> Toronto, the Internet
> > Archive, and several other companies and
> organizations. Unlike
> > Google's project, they will not scan any
> copyrighted work without
> > explicit permission. Organizers of the project
> said the goal is to
> > digitize and make freely available as much of what
> is in the public
> > domain as possible. In addition, the archive will
> not be restricted to
> > users of Yahoo. David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's vice
> president for search
> > content, said the texts will be online in such a
> way that other search
> > engines will be able to locate them. Much of the
> scanning for the OCA
> > will be done by the Internet Archive, which has
> already been working
> > with the University of Toronto on scanning several
> thousand books in
> > its collection.
> > Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 October 2005
> > http://chronicle.com/free/2005/10/2005100301t.htm
> >
> > LAMS FOUNDATION LAUNCHES COMMUNITY WEB SITE
> > The Learning Activity Management System (LAMS)
> Foundation has announced
> > the launch of a new Web site that will allow what
> it calls "open source
> > teaching," in which educators can share and modify
> digital lesson
> > plans. The LAMS Community Web site is based on the
> .LRN open source
> > platform, developed at MIT. Using the LAMS
> Community Web site, teachers
> > can search through various subset communities,
> looking for sequences of
> > learning activities particular to their field.
> Available communities
> > will initially include developers, technical
> support, and education,
> > which will offer subcommunities for K-12, higher
> education and
> > training, and research and development. New
> communities can be added
> > later, such as a community focused on math
> teachers in the Boston area.
> > The Web site will allow teachers to share their
> own learning sequences,
> > access others' sequences, rate them, and discuss
> them. All of the
> > content will be used under Creative Commons
> licenses.
> > LAMS Foundation, 30 September 2005
> > http://www.lamsfoundation.org/news/lamscomm.html
> >
> > GOOGLE OFFERS TO UNWIRE SAN FRANCISCO
> > Google is one of more than a dozen organizations
> that have submitted
> > bids in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin
> Newsom's call for a
> > citywide wireless Internet network. The network
> would provide free
> > Internet access to anyone in the city. Google
> finds itself flush with
> > more than $7 billion in cash after recent stock
> sales. Industry
> > observers speculated that setting up a municipal
> wireless network in
> > San Francisco could be the first step in a Google
> plan to establish
> > such a network nationwide, though the company said
> it currently has no
> > plans to expand beyond the Bay Area. Analysts said
> Google's interest
> > in facilitating increased Internet access directly
> serves the
> > company's goals of organizing the world's
> information. In addition,
> > providing Internet access to greater numbers of
> people means
> > potentially more visitors to Google's site, which
> would increase
> > advertising revenues.
> > Wired News, 1 October 2005
> >
>
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,69059,00.html
> >
> > DIGITAL MUSIC SALES SURGE
> > According to the International Federation of the
> Phonographic Industry
> > (IFPI), sales of online digital music more than
> tripled in the first
> > half of 2005, compared to the same period in 2004.
> Sales of legal music
> > downloads totaled $790 million (representing 6
> percent of total music
> > sales worldwide), up from $220 million the year
> before. Most of the
> > gains were seen in the world's top five music
> markets: the United
> > States, Britain, Japan, Germany, and France. Sales
> of physical formats
> > declined by nearly 7 percent in value and 3.4
> percent in units. The
> > IFPI said it will continue working to spur legal
> sales of online music
> > while limiting the illegal sharing of music. John
> Kennedy, chairman and
> > chief executive of the IFPI, said that "digital
> and physical piracy
> > remain a big threat to our business in many
> markets. Our industry's
> > priorities are to further grow this emerging
> digital-music business
> > while stepping up our efforts to protect it from
> copyright theft."
> > Wall Street Journal, 3 October 2005 (sub. req'd)
> >
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112834107711958392.html
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