Some of the commercial scanning projects just show photographs of each book
page and not text. Some sites like Jstor (academic journals) let me
download the images in a .pdf file which can be opened in Kurzweil and read
after using the program to recognize the images just as the ocr would work
if I scanned a printed page directly into Kurzweil. Other scanned book
projects use different photographic formats and I'm not expert enough to
know if they can be recognized online. Has anyone tried to read the Yahoo or
Google digitized books with adaptive technology?
Cheryl Fogle MA Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, University of New Mexico
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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http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,69059,00.html> > TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 03, 2005 > Yahoo Announces Book-Scanning Project > LAMS Foundation Launches Community Web Site > Google Offers to Unwire San Francisco > Digital Music Sales Surge > > > 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 >
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