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25 universitet (och universitetsbibliotek) i USA har i tysthet arbetat i två år för att skapa en av världens största online boksamlingar, till stora delar öppen för alla på Nätet.
"A group of major universities has been quietly working for the past two years to build one of the largest online collections of books ever assembled, by pooling the millions of volumes that Google has scanned in its partnership with university libraries", skriver The Chronicle of Higher Education.
"A group of the nation's large research libraries has launched a new online digital repository for scanned books and other documents, essentially making the digital holdings of each institution available to all of the others", skriver Ars Technica om samarbetsprojektet.
Några aktuella fakta hämtade från projektets sajt:
Currently Digitized
2,108,108 volumes
737,837,800 pages
78 terabytes
25 miles
1,713 tons
333,534 volumes (~16% of total) in the public domain
LÄNKAR
University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library Chronicle.com
Universities launch elephantine 78 terabyte digital library arstechnica.com
Project: HathiTrust (Shared Digital Repository) Indiana University
Google Book Search
The Shared Digital Future | www.hathitrust.org
UPPDATERING
An Elephant Backs Up Google's Library - Bits Blog NYTimes.com
Universities Launch Collective Digital Library, 78 Terabytes Large Wired.com
UPPDATERING
Portending a Universal Digital Library, HathiTrust Launches Ambitious Repository Library Journal
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14 oktober 2008, kl. 13:12