IndustryLearn About Open Content Alliance Book Scanning at the University of Toronto

Learn About Open Content Alliance Book Scanning at the University of Toronto

Book digitization has been going on at the University of Toronto Libraries for some time. In fact, I wrote about scanning at UT and included a link to a video of the scanning robot almost a year ago.

In a Wall Street Journal article published today titled: Building an Online Library, One Volume at a Time, you’ll meet Liz Ridolfo, a scanner at UT who is digitizing books. You’ll learn about her daily work and get a quick look at exactly how it works.

Ms. Ridolfo is part of a massive undertaking to digitize the world’s books. She is one of about a dozen scanners employed by the Internet Archive, a San Francisco nonprofit group that is spearheading the Open Content Alliance, a consortium of business and educational groups that includes Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Adobe Systems Inc. and several university libraries. The group wants to build an online library of millions of old books and hopes to make a big batch accessible through Web searches as early as next year. For all its technical sophistication, the group needs the manual work of people like Ms. Ridolfo to make digitization a reality.

NOTE: Access to the full text of the WSJ is free this week to non-subscribers.

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