Google still has a long way to go if it wants to meet its ambitious aim: digitizing all of the world's known 129,864,880 books by the end of 2019. The Google Books project has scanned over 12 million books, largely thanks to the 40-plus libraries...
Google made the case for digitizing orphaned books. 12 updates to read over a lazy weekend. This week started off fairly quiet in the search news world, but the last two days have been pounded with stories.
The Google Book deal, made in the U.S.got more European countries on the barricades, but the Germans seemed most active in the battle against Google digitizing their books. Consider German government's love-hate relationship with Google, which was...
Google has taken a lot of time digitizing books from print to the EPUB format. Google Book Search is now supporting downloads of over 1 million public domain books through the EPUB format. EPUB is a free, open-source standard supported by some e...
In addition to digitizing newspapers in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe, PaperofRecord has digitized historical documents including he Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's longest serving Prime Minister.
Obviously this was a first step in digitizing the new and current user experience. Social media: amazing, mediocre or worthless tool for large enterprises? Executives in large enterprise companies face one of those three choices when evaluating...
Digitizing of Information The problem is we obviously have analog roots, and digitizing information takes effort and capital. Quit your part-time job, buy a digital camera and a notebook, and walk down the street.
Digitizing Books: A Hand, a Finger and Other Stuff: Resource Shelf From The SEW Blog. Google AdWords Adds Statistics Tabs I just discovered that Google has updated their AdWords campaigns interface to include "account statistics tabs.
Genealogy: Ancestry.com Completes Digitizing Entire U.S. Another week has gone by and the world of databases of special interest to the web researcher have appeared on ResourceShelf. Here's a look at a few of them along with a couple of database...
From Traffic Cams to Digitizing to the Kennedy Library to Archival Records: A Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately:
From Traffic Cams to Digitizing to the Kennedy Library to Archival Records: A Selection of Specialty Database via ResourceShelf Yes it's time once again for a Gary Price, specialty search database and portal roundup.
Both the universities will be digitizing "primarily out-of-copyright books" for Microsoft. Microsoft announced that the University of California and University of Toronto Libraries will be participating in the Windows Live Book Search program.
They basically talked about Google's goal in digitizing books to make them easily findable via search. Yesterday From The SEW Blog. Daily SearchCast, May 18, 2006: Yahoo Analyst Day; Google's New Ad Budget Options active abstracts" that can lead...
They basically talked about Google's goal in digitizing books to make them easily findable via search. Leslie Walker from the Washington Post sat down with Vinton Cerf, founding father of the Internet and Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, about...
Coleman points out libraries and others have been digitizing books in one form or another for many years. We were digitizing books long before Google knocked on our door* and we will continue our preservation efforts long after our contract with...
Book Digitization: Project Gutenberg Founder Interviewed - Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971 digitizing and copying public domain books. SES NY Coming! Top Stories + More From The Search Engine Watch Blog + Daily SearchCast: Search News...
Establishing New Trust Signals In Search: Moving To Trusted Links Joins Open Content Alliance, A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut, Germany: Publishers Plan Online Book Service, Details about Europe's i2010 Digital Libraries Program...
Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971 digitizing and copying public domain books. We're talking a lot about digitized books these days here on the blog. Via GB, this Wall Street Journal Q&A interview (free) with its founder Michael Hart on...
Since the recent announcement is about books from what Baker has to say perhaps MS and the BL are thinking about digitizing other types of objects? In an exclusive Information World Review interview: BL opens up to Microsoft and reveals revenue...
Million Digitized Images Now Available Online from The Library of Congress - Long before The Library of Congress (LC) made the announcement last week about planning a World Digital Library (WDL), they've been digitizing material of all types for...
