The February 2008 issue of PC Pro reports on the British Library’s plan to digitize 100,000 books published in the nineteenth century – 25,000,000 pages.
The digitizing partner chosen is Microsoft, with the actual work being done by a German firm, Content Conversion Specialists; the library ‘retains the rights to all the data being collected’ but [...]
‘Digitizing the British Library’
on 18 December, 2007 – 12:04 pm
Posted in Library, Search
Titans at War!
on 23 October, 2007 – 3:32 pm
Posted in Search
Google Book Search has been much publicised and has become a shorthand for both the colossal ambition of Google and its casual disregard for intellectual property or the sensitivities of potential partners. The latter are possibly unsurprising for a company that has seen profit growth of 46% in 2Q07, added nearly 3000 employees in the [...]
