[Web4lib] Enhanced E-book Service

[Tim Spalding]

Sorry. My point wasn't clear. The point wasn't that they should index
the indexes, but that indexes or page references alone are good
enough. It's nice to have the book right there, but the really
powerful thing is to FIND that obscure reference.

Tim

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> On 10/14/2010 01:59 AM, Tim Spalding wrote:
>>
>> I wanted to find references to who read what Greek authors, and what
>> they thought about them. So I basically read through the *indexes* of
>> a few hundred relevant books—papers, biographies, histories, poetry,
>
> An index is just a list of facts, which is not a work of literature.
> In Europe, such lists are covered by 15 years of database rights,
> but every index published before 1990 should be possible for
> Google or Hathi to publish openly, worldwide.
>
> There can be arguments over the use of cover images, but the
> contents of title pages are already copied into library catalogs
> without respect to any copyright. I think the same should go
> for tables of content and indexes, and for legends to maps.
> There should be no need to obscure them with snippets.
>
>
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>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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