Together with the help of a little memory boost, a technology like Macroglossa's would enable the robot seem almost human -- if not for its astronaut like gait and overall look --, with a whole library of visuals at its disposal.
Most public library sites offer "aska" services, which allow you to post questions to librarians and get answers, by email, instant message or SMS. But limited scope also means that most of the entries in these directories are high quality and you...
As expected the University of California is partnering with Google on the Google library scanning project. UC partnered with Microsoft on its project in June. UC is also part of the broader Open Content Alliance backed by both Microsoft and Yahoo.
What will it take for Google or another search engine to truly assemble a library of all of the world's information? The grand library naturally needs a copy of the billions of dead Web pages no longer online and the tens of millions of blog posts...
The Library Scanning project: I think they're probably fine on the legal grounds of making an index of copyrighted works. AdSense has definitely helped more people make a living from writing quality content online and spurred others to compete...
Via Searchblog, I read the excerpts from a speech by the President of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, about Google Book Search or to be more specific Google's Library Program. Will people make the extra effort to get the book they...
Over on ResourceShelf we've posted about Libraries411.com, a new mashup that combines public library location info (and more) for more than 20,000 libraries in the US and Canada and mashes the info with both Google Maps or Yahoo Maps.
The New York Public Library and Answers.com Announce New Homework Service Book Digitization: Project Gutenberg Founder Interviewed - Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971 digitizing and copying public domain books.
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...
The Internet Public Library has a far smaller collection of sites than Open Directory Project or Yahoo Directory, but the web sites included are high quality. The Internet Public Library (IPL) began in 1995 as a graduate seminar project in the...
Tomorrow, the Google Library Project will be one year old. Here's a link to our first SearchDay article about the Google Library Project from December 14, 2004. To this day, Google Book Search (the material direct from publishers) and the Google...
He has also added the "first demo batch" of books from the Open Library, sponsored by the Open Content Alliance. Every library offers a different collection of NetLibrary materials just like every physical library offers its own collection of...
In the past few weeks we've not only posted about the latest with Google Book Search/Google Library Project, the Open Content Alliance, and new stuff coming from Amazon and others. He has also added the "first demo batch" of books from the Open...
The Information World Review (IWR is a VNU publication) article: Google digitisation faces Euro legal challenge, reports on Google's book digitisation project (the Google Library Project to be precise) facing some legal obstacles in Europe.
World Digital Library project to digitize important works from around the world, the rival and preexisting Open Content Alliance backed by Yahoo, MSN and the Involvement in Google Library Project Today's search podcast covers Google funding a US...
Digital Library Project. A Man's Visition: World Library Online isn't about the US Library Of Congress kindler, gentler" digital library that might not irk publishers in the way Google Library has. One attendee of the launch party for the OCA...
The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library today, a project that's also just received its first $3 million in funding from Google. The concept behind the WDL is to use public and private money to...
Google Print is now publishing the full-text of public domain/out-of-copyright print works it has acquired through the Google Print library scanning project. The move comes a couple of days after it was announced that Google was resuming its...
Then, some (but not all of this material, depending on the library and the actual content) will be available as part of the OCA database. Postscript 2: The Open Library check out OpenLibrary.org for a cool bookviewer and the vision book-- it tells...
The library project is meant to help feed additional content into Google Print without publishers explicitly cooperating. The lawsuit was filed only after lengthy discussions broke down between AAP and Google's top management regarding the...
