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

[Mark Bardsley]

If Roy gets to belabor, so do I. I obviously didn't intend to imply that U.
Michigan's books would in anyway become Google's upon scanning. I am trying
to point out that if U. Michigan has a website that allows acces to the
their scanned books and Google has an interface that allows access to their
scanned books and the books of other universities I don't foresee many
people using U. Michigan's website to search their (U. Michigan's) scanned
books.

- Mark

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:11 PM
To: Web4Lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] RE: Re: RE: More on the Open Content Alliance

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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