[WEB4LIB] RE: Library News from Google ... *and* UM! (fwd)

[Junus, Ranti]

Well, somebody from U of Michigan probably can give us some insights on how they would pursue this.  I'd imagine they already talk about this project and working on the copyright issues for quite sometime before they made the official announcement, as it's indicated from their website.  

I'm more interested in how the digitization will be done, how detail the metadata will be.  Will somebody able to do a search up to a certain chapter or even to a particular paragraph?   How this will impact the online catalog?  Will this also open for OAI harvesters?     If a material is already available through the Project Gutenberg, will they still digitize it?  When they said"digitized", what kind of format they're talking about?  Will those digitized version, epecially the full text ones, readable by a screen reader?   It is downloadable as an eBook?  Stuff like that... :-)


ranti.
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> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Gerald M. Furi
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> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Library News from Google ... *and* UM! (fwd)
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> Greetings, everyone
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> Didn't the British Library recently have to reverse course on their 
> ambitious digitization project, to the extent that access will only be 
> from within the building due to copyright issues?  :(
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