Google adds major libraries to its database
Posted by malebolgia on 14 December 2004 - 16:45 · 15 comments & 1740 views
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#1 Posted by nemo on 14 Dec 2004 - 16:52
- google is so awesome!!! they can never stop getting better...
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#1.1 Posted by kitchenutensils on 14 Dec 2004 - 17:00
- yeah i know!
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#2 Posted by quick on 14 Dec 2004 - 17:22
- Nice...
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#3 Posted by Beast_4thHM on 14 Dec 2004 - 17:35
- Brilliant Idea! info for all! power to the people!
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#4 Posted by nic on 14 Dec 2004 - 18:12
- libraries still have some HUGE advantages over the internet when it comes to finding reliable sources of information.
This is a great leap for Google, and I hope they expand to cover more libraries and even go beyond electric copies of books to cover electronic card catalogs.
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#5 Posted by Richardo on 14 Dec 2004 - 18:19
- Scan 40,000 books? OMG that must be the most boring job in the world. Wonder how well it will work with diagrams and pictures, or will they use text-only books?
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#6 Posted by pctuk on 14 Dec 2004 - 18:49
- If we reached a point where all the books in the Oxford University library were scanned it would be a fantatic resource.
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#7 Posted by [hxc] on 14 Dec 2004 - 19:03
- this is the first wave of the assimilation has begun haha. good idea google.
the best got got better
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#8 Posted by Dark Ride on 14 Dec 2004 - 22:34
- It will take several years wow
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#9 Posted by Shifty_mc on 15 Dec 2004 - 03:32
- the more old information digitised and kept forever more the better
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#10 Posted by DrunkenMaster on 15 Dec 2004 - 04:12
- I'd like to seem them do academic journals. At least if not the full article, be able to search for keywords and give me the title of the article. The 3rd party companies univesities use all suck and cost a lot of $$$$ .
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#10.1 Posted by tiwaris on 15 Dec 2004 - 11:37
- Google scholar does a part of that. (but for only online data).
This is huge step ahead by google.
Is is legal to put online (for free) all the academic content without getting confirmation from the respective publishers. I don't think libraries own copyright to the volumes they house.
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#11 Posted by Dwarden on 15 Dec 2004 - 11:38
- yes more informations ... imagine all that possible disasters which can happen to normal library (floods e.g. like Prague tons of unique books losts forever) or fire ...
digitalized and stored in multiple places around world ... protected against EM damage ...
yay
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#12 Posted by Hills420 on 16 Dec 2004 - 03:40
- I've used scholar and it seems really good.
On Tuesday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based is expected to announce relationships with five major libraries, including the University of Michigan, Oxford University and the New York Public Library, to create digital copies of some books so that they may be searchable using Google. Also on Tuesday, the company will begin sampling some works already scanned for Google Print, the company's searchable index of books that it formally unveiled in October.
Susan Wojcicki, Google's director of product management, said the project will evolve over several years. "Libraries have been the keepers of information for centuries," she said. "We're excited to unlock that wealth of Information." For now, the scope of Google's relationship with each institution varies. For example, Harvard Publications Director Peter Kosewski said the university is in a pilot program with Google to scan only 40,000 randomly selected books from its collection of 15 million, the largest academic library in the United States dating to the 1630s.
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