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

[Roy Tennant]

Not to belabor this, but a final clarification of my intent since I  
phrased it poorly. Perry is correct, that to see the public domain  
material from the University of Michigan we won't need to go through  
Google. But I was trying to speak more about Google's intent. If  
Google truly wanted only the public good, then there would be no  
reason to be secretive -- in fact there would be some very good  
reasons to be completely open about how they are accomplishing this  
technical feat. But Google wants content to get eyeballs, and  
therefore more advertising revenue. Therefore, they have little or no  
interest in making information about how they are doing things  
available to the rest of us. This has nothing to do with the  
University of Michigan, but it has a great deal to do with Google.
Roy

On Oct 28, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Perry Willett wrote:

> And to respond to Mark's comments: they're not Google's
> scanned books, they're ours. These are our collections, and
> we take curatorial responsibility for both the print and
> digital versions. If people want to use Google Print,
> that's fine. Roy's point was that he thought that people
> would be forced to use Google to see these books, and
> that's just not true.
>
> Perry
>
> Perry Willett
> Head, Digital Library Production Service
> 300 Hatcher North
> University of Michigan
> Ann Arbor MI 48109-1205
> Ph: 734-764-8074
> Fax: 734-647-6897
> Email: pwillett at umich.edu
>
>
>
>> Perry,
>>
>> Being the devil's advocate here: why would I go to the U.
>> Michigan website to look for Google's scanned books when
>> I could go to Google's website and get the "internet" as
>> well as scanned in books from other universities? It
>> might be useful for U. Michigan faculty staff and students
>> to search the scanned books from U. Michigan but not the
>> rest of the world.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
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