[Web4lib] RE: Re: RE: More on the Open Content Alliance

[K.G. Schneider]

> Also, the sharing of information about the digitization process is also
> important for collaborative preservation--particularly to
> collaboratively address digital format obsolescence, etc.  When the
> library world collaborates to set digitization standards, our intent is
> to insure usability for future generations, through transcoding,
> encapsulating, etc. as formats and technologies change. 

Grace's point is good, and I Am Not Defending Google. But my question would
be how much HAS the library world collaborated, how quickly, and with what
results. To what extent is Google Print the outcome of inaction from a
profession which can be more competitive than collaborative, and which moves
with all the deliberate speed of a glacier?

> I wonder where
> Google sees itself in terms of collaborative preservation?

Google sees itself as the answer, but we are in part--maybe a very large
part--responsible for that state of affairs.

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com