[Web4lib] More on the Open Content Alliance

[Leslie Johnston]

All,

Tuesday there was a workshop for many of the participants in the Open 
Content Alliance, followed by a presentation by Brewster Kahle at a reception.

What you're seeing on the web site that Roy linked to 
<http://www.openlibrary.org/details/openlibrary> is Brewster's 
presentation describing the OCA, not the actual service itself.  The 
service has not yet launched and is not populated.  Some content that 
will be part of the OCA is already coming in to the Internet Archive 
and available at <http://www.archive.org/details/texts>.  More 
information on the OCA is available at <http://www.opencontentalliance.org/>

Leslie

At 04:21 AM 10/27/2005, J.P.Knight wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Roy Tennant wrote:
>><http://www.openlibrary.org/details/openlibrary>
>
>Awww, what a horrible website.  I know its trying to look like a 
>book, but this is the web!  I was sitting there clicking on the 
>"Open Library" image with no luck thinking it was a splash 
>screen.  The navigation stuff on the right hand side was a bit 
>screwed up with the size of my web browser so I didn't spot it at 
>first and even when I did, I assumed that the arrows applied to the 
>"listen" button next to them (which I didn't bother with as I don't 
>have speakers on my workstation).  When I did happen to click on the 
>right hand "page" to flip it over, the left hand edge of the new 
>left hand page was cut off until I resized my browser window.
>
>Whatever happened to good old fashioned straight HTML, eh?
>
>Jim'll
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Leslie Johnston
Head, Digital Access Services
University of Virginia Library
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/das/
johnston at virginia.edu