The Library of Google
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Google Library Used To Undercut Google
Print
Google Library Used To Undercut Google
Print
06/17/2005 03:33 PMLast month, in discussing how
publisher
s were angry at Google for its book scanning project, we noted
that Google had decided to scan some books without the publisher's
permission, citing fair use rights. It turns out the situation is a
bit more complex. What really appears to have happened is the
collis
ion of two different book scanning projects. The first, Google
Print, was where Google partnered with publishers and promised them
that the scanned books would (a) help sell more books and (b) more
importantly, allow them to get
ad revenue associated with
contextual ads alongside any pages that people viewed. However, soon
afterwards, Google tied this project with their Google Library
project, where they were partnering with libraries to scan all of
their books. In those cases, there was no revenue sharing argument.
The benefit for the libraries is that Google pays the expense of
digitizing their entire collection, which the library then gets to
use. Of course, there's a potential conflict here, as Google can scan
a library book, even though the publisher of the book refused to take
part in Google Print -- or, even if they agreed to take part, but now
they won't get the revenue share from the ads. In some sense, again,
it comes down to a question of "ownership." The publishers view
ownership from the intellectual property point of view, saying that
they own the words, and no one can do anything with them without
permission. The libraries, on the other hand, are viewing ownership
in the more tangible sense, along with the right of first sale --
saying that, if they own the physical books, they should have the
rights to do what they want with them. It's a fine line, of course,
but given the way the courts have been acting lately, it would seem
likely that they would side with the publishers -- and claim that the
libraries were violating the publishers' rights in digitizing the
books in the first place.
Google Tag Library
Google Tag Library
12/20/2003 05:00 PMUML Diagram
Google Becomes a Library?
Google Becomes a Library?
12/19/2004 03:06 PMGot to tell you, the news about Google helping to digitize books from
various libraries is just not that shocking to me. The reality that
Google now has some deep pockets and they are wanting to make
impressions in all the right areas has never been so apparent. Now for
those of you wondering, Google is not going to be doing this
monumental effort just for a stack of romance novels. Nope, instead
they are…
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Library?'
Google Library
Google Library
12/19/2004 03:41 PMGoogle Library As has been reported quite widely, Google has begun a
massive digitization project with five libraries: Stanford University
(all 8M) University of Michigan (all 7M) Harvard University (pilot of
40,000 out of 15M) New York Public Library (pilot; expand to 20M)
Oxford's Bodleian Library (1M public domain) The total covered by
existing agreements is said to be 15 million. Each is estimated to
cost $10 to scan. Stanford's scanning unit is said to be able to do
100,000 pages a day. Oxford's scanning unit is said to be able to do
10,000 books per week. If all of them are that speed then by my math
it will take a little over five years to scan them all. Similarly, the
University of Michigan says the project will take six years. Most
agreements indicate that the hosting library will get a digital copy
of their books, which apparently they will then host for their users.
In addition, Google will throw all the books into its Google Print
service. Some books are already available through the service. For
example, Books and Culture is an out-of-copyright book from 1896. Note
that unlike a publisher-submitted book, you can easily link to or view
any page: the cover, the University of Michigan bookplate, page 50,
the U of M checkout slip, the back cover. You can also search the full
text leading to a standard Google results page with links and
snippets. Click on any of the links and the resulting page will
highlight your search terms, just like Google Catalog. Sadly, it seems
the only thing not available is the full text of the books. However,
it is pretty easy to get the underlying images of the pages (tho not
as easy as simply looking at the page, alas) so one could certainly
OCR it themselves if they liked, although it'd likely not be as good
as Google's work. Things look much worse for in-copyright books. For
example, The Role of GATT in Relation to Trade and Development was
only published in 1964 and is apparently in-copyright. One can thus
only get back practically useless snippets while the fat-cats at
Google have the whole thing. Fortunately, "Google is negotiating with
various publishers to facilitate arrangements to make works more
easily accessible while providing appropriate protections for
copyright holders" for in-copyright library books. It will be
interesting to see how much success they have. It's not clear how to
search Google for just library books, or even just books, or to find
out how many they have, but here are the handful I know about, all
from U. of M. (books published after 1923 are copyrighted): Darwin,
and After Darwin (1906) True Stories of Pioneer Life (1924) Record of
Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (C) The
Return of the Middle Class (1922) The Role of GATT in Relation to
Trade and Development (1964) Books and Culture (1896) A New View of
Society & Other Writings (1927) Do you hold the copyright on a
book? Does your book have an ISBN? If you answered yes to both these
questions, you don't have to wait for all this. You can simply sign up
to Google Print, send Google a copy of your book, and they'll scan it
in and OCR it for you for free! Then they'll send you checks with all
the money your book makes through ads! So please do it! Please? A
closing thought. Much of the discussion around this endeavor has
focused on its effect for the largely-affluent and privileged children
who go to the major universities from which the books are taken. Will
they stop going to the library? Will they miss the smell of dead
trees? Will they be able to do research more efficiently? With all due
respect, this is the wrong group to think about. The real
beneficiaries of this scanning should be the less fortunate people
around the world who barely have access to a library, let alone a
world-class one. Let us scan these books for them....
Is Google Faster Than The Library?
Is Google Faster Than The Library?
05/06/2004 02:53 AMWhen you need to find out some information, these days, most people
turn to a search engine first. Is that the smartest choice? The
Guardian has decided to do a very informal test to see just how
effective
Googl
e is in answering certain questions, compared to a well-connected
person on a phone and someone in a library. The basic answer is
that it depends on what you're looking for. It also appears to depend
on how good you are with Google, how strong your personal phonable
network is, or how adept you are at finding info in the library.
However, it is worth pointing out that Google isn't always the best
place to go. In the informal test, Google was only the fastest half
of the time - and wasn't always accurate. Of course, if someone were
to run the same test again tomorrow with different people and
different questions (or, hell, even the same people with the same
questions), the results might be completely different.
Is Google Watching Your Library Visits?
Is Google Watching Your Library Visits?
02/01/2005 10:05 PMGoogle-Watch: Appeal to the American Library Association. Google-Watch
points out the frightening possibility that Google's personally
identifiable cookie could allow the FBI to see what books you read
using Google Library. Other problems with the Google Library project
include the fact that the agreements are not available and possibly
contain restrictive requirements about how the library can used the
scanned copies of the books....
Google Library: Peril for Publishers?
Google Library: Peril for Publishers?
06/17/2005 07:22 PMOld Search Engine, the Library, Tries to
Fit Into a Google World
Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to
Fit Into a Google World
06/20/2004 10:05 PMLibrarians have increasingly seen people use online search sites not
to supplement research libraries but to replace them.
Privacy issues with Google library
search? Not!
Privacy issues with Google library
search? Not!
06/22/2005 02:06 AMThis definitely goes under the category of Life on Other Planets.
Anyone who thinks that what Google is doing is inherently more evil
than what happens at any brick and mortar library must have been
watching ‘The Matrix’ a few too many times. The author,
Elinor Mills, seems to think that some horrific breach of privacy is
involved. No doubt she never visits real libraries, with their card
files full of personally identifiable customer lists…
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Google to announce library database
collaborations
Google to announce library database
collaborations
12/19/2004 03:46 PMGoogle plans to announce agreements with five major libraries to begin
the digitization of holdings that will be available for online
searches.
Google Puts Library Collections Online
Google Puts Library Collections Online
12/19/2004 03:06 PMSearch technology pioneer Google is archiving the collections from
some of the world's leading libraries, putting millions of volumes at
the fingertips of Internet users.
Google Turns a New Page with Digital
Library Project
Google Turns a New Page with Digital
Library Project
12/19/2004 03:06 PMGoogle announced an agreement Tuesday with Oxford University and some
leading U.S. research libraries to begin converting their holdings
into digital files searchable over the Web.
Using Google Scholar at Georgia State
University Library
Using Google Scholar at Georgia State
University Library
12/22/2004 01:27 AMThe Georgia State University Library has a very nice page on using
Google Scholar at http://www.library.gsu.edu/googlescholar/. Find the
reference in Google, find it locally, and if you need help consult...
French To Provide Alternative To Google
Library Project
French To Provide Alternative To Google
Library Project
03/17/2005 03:49 AMAddict3d.org Mar 17 2005 7:48AM GMT
Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books.
Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books.
12/19/2004 03:36 PMSo the big<
/a> news is about Google
and libraries. I don't feel the need to comment on this
right now, as you can find plenty of other places for that. However,
here are a few angles I haven't seen discussed elsewhere in the
library blogosphere.
- Librari
es and the Internet
"More broadly, the Internet can profoundly improve the relationship
between libraries and society. For example, there are two major
libraries in my town -- a college library, and a public library. My
library card works in both places. I used to favor the college
library, because there was open WiFi access there -- which meant,
among other things, that I could use LibraryLookup from my laptop to
find books in the stacks. Recently, though, the college shut down its
open access point. And from an IT administrator's point of view, I can
understand why. Not long after, the public library installed an open
access point. So now it's my favorite spot, and lately I notice other
mobile professionals congregating there too." [Jon Udell's
Weblog
(Click over to read Jon's story about getting locked in
the library, too!)
- "A quick calculation using the figures above suggests an average
scan rate of 3200 volumes per day (assuming 365 days/year for 6 years)
at the University of Michigan site alone." [Tito Sierra on the WEB4
LIB mailing list]
- "An even quicker calculation shows that they will need to
digitize 2.25 books _a_minute_, 24 hours/day, 365 days/year to
digitize 7 million volumes in six years." [Roy Tennant on the WEB4
LIB mailing list]
It's times like this when I wish
Karen Coyle had<
/a> a blog.
"RipDigital is a bulk CD-ripping
operation: send them your CD library and
they'll ship your library back in MP3
format"
"RipDigital is a bulk CD-ripping
operation: send them your CD library and
they'll ship your library back in MP3
format"
01/12/2004 02:57 AMDelicious Library 1.0: Easy, Fun Library
Software Catalogs Your Media
Delicious Library 1.0: Easy, Fun Library
Software Catalogs Your Media
03/17/2005 03:10 AMIn addition to being useful and easy to use, it's just plain fun.
By Mathew Honan, Macworld
Denver Public Library Launches New
Digital Library
Denver Public Library Launches New
Digital Library
05/06/2004 05:47 AMDenver Public Library Launches New Digital Libraryhttp://snipurl.com/65h2Denver Public Library?s new online service is giving city
residents access to popular eBooks directly from their homes and
offices. The Library serves over a half-million residents and 80% of
the city?s population has a library card and access to the new
service. ?This is an exciting opportunity to provide eBooks to the
city,? said Michelle Jeske, Manager of Web Information Services. ?This
year, we saw a 24% increase in the number of online library
transactions. eBooks that can be downloaded from our website fit very
well with this kind of public demand,? she added.
State Library of Tasmania: Image Library
State Library of Tasmania: Image Library
01/16/2004 11:02 AM State Library of Tasmania, Heritage Collection
Image Library.
Google’s Library Project: Questions,
Questions, Questions
Google’s Library Project: Questions,
Questions, Questions
01/03/2005 07:10 PMBusted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside
The Library
Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside
The Library
09/01/2004 06:32 AMWorld's Largest Online Library Joins
ISTE in Promoting Technology in
Education - Questia Online Library and
Research Service Joins ISTE 100
World's Largest Online Library Joins
ISTE in Promoting Technology in
Education - Questia Online Library and
Research Service Joins ISTE 100
06/14/2004 02:07 AMQuestia, world's largest online library and research service joins
ISTE 100 to promote effective use of technology in the classroom.
[PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]
British Library Launches British Library
Direct
British Library Launches British Library
Direct
06/05/2005 11:20 PMThe British Library has announced British Library Direct, which is a
pay-as-you-go service that offers nine million articles from 20,000
international research journals. These articles go back five years,
and...
Google IPO, Google Foundation (Google
Webl0g)
Google IPO, Google Foundation (Google
Webl0g)
04/30/2004 04:57 AMLetter from the Google founders .. the Google blog has more .. it
begins
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E-Library v2.7
E-Library v2.7
11/14/2003 08:03 AME-Library helps you organize your books. You can store information
such as author, title, genre, year and more. [Freeware 2.95 MB]
MMC Library
MMC Library
04/28/2004 08:41 AMRelease 1.6.5 is available for download
.NET MSN Library
.NET MSN Library
09/19/2004 10:03 AMNOW ! dotnetMSN 1.0.2 with a sampl App
Library 2.1
Library 2.1
06/02/2004 04:44 PMLibrary lets you catalog your books easily in a nice, Mac-like
interface.
GD Library
GD Library
10/29/2003 12:11 AMIf you are interested in creating images at runtime using PHP then
this
is the tutorial for you.
TCB::Library 1.1
TCB::Library 1.1
05/19/2004 06:00 PMA database-backed book library package for DBIx::Frame.
Library in the Sky
Library in the Sky
11/10/2003 10:51 PMLibrary in the Sky - Educational Web Resourceshttp://www.nwrel.org/sky/The Library in the Sky is a database of interesting and useful
educational Web sites for those involved in education. Find the
information you want through the Search, User Tabs, by Department, or
Materials. Currently there are 1546 educational Web sites listed in
the Library in the Sky. Search the entire database of resource links,
or narrow your search to those Web sites that will most likely be of
interest to you.
MS CHM library 0.35
MS CHM library 0.35
06/29/2004 02:28 AMA library for reading Microsoft .CHM files.
G.A. Library
G.A. Library
04/11/2004 08:04 AMC++ compilation and deletion within infinite vectors
GNU C library 2.3.2
GNU C library 2.3.2
03/15/2003 04:27 AMThe C library used in the GNU system.
"New library"
"New library"
04/12/2005 05:29 AMMS CHM library 0.33
MS CHM library 0.33
05/06/2004 10:19 AMA library for reading Microsoft .CHM files.
MLS library
MLS library
06/20/2004 12:55 PMlibmls1-0.3 released
MXP Library 0.1
MXP Library 0.1
05/23/2004 03:21 PMA library to parse MXP (MUD Extension Protocol) streams.
Yed - Yet another C library
Yed - Yet another C library
12/09/2003 07:23 AMYed 1.2.1 released
Grok Description matches for The Library of Google
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DSpace at MIT
DSpace at MIT
10/28/2003 11:08 PMDSpace at MIThttp://www.dspace.org/https://hpds1.mit.edu/index.jsp
DSpace is a newly developed digital repository created
to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of MIT. As
a joint project of MIT Libraries and the Hewlett-Packard Company,
DSpace provides stable long-term storage needed to house the digital
products of MIT faculty and researchers.
dspace
dspace
04/23/2004 01:26 PMDSpace 1.2 Beta 1 Released
DSPace Support
DSPace Support
04/15/2004 11:49 AMMIT says that Google is adding support for their DSpace archive of
research papers and associated metadata, along with access to the
DSpace repositories of 125 other universities and organizations. It
will be interesting to see how this support pans out....
Universities collaborate to work with
DSpace
Universities collaborate to work with
DSpace
03/13/2003 10:16 AM A group of colleges has formed
to collaboratively develop MIT 's DSpace , an archiving project for campus
digital materials. The group consists of Cambridge , Columbia , Cornell , Ohio State , and the
Universities of Rochester ,
Toronto , and Washington .
DSpace is "an electronic
system that captures, preserves and communicates the intellectual
output of MIT's faculty and researchers." Anyone may download the DSpace
code , which is freely available, along with
documentation .
MIT designed DSpace with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories to allow
professors to store reports and other research documents in a
searchable digital archive. Eventually, MIT officials hope, professors
will be able find scholastic research as easily as college students
search for MP3's of their favorite music.
DSpace was funded by the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and
Hewlett-Packard .
(from the
Chronicle )
dSPACE: simulator boards with PowerPC
processor
dSPACE: simulator boards with PowerPC
processor
07/16/2004 06:57 AMECE Jul 16 2004 11:21AM GMT
EContentMag: A Giant Leap for Academia?
Google Ventures into DSpace
EContentMag: A Giant Leap for Academia?
Google Ventures into DSpace
07/19/2004 06:23 PM"DSpace is open-source software designed to assist colleges and
universities in creating, managing, and maintaining digital
repositories..."
Solving The Online Music Format Mess...
With Another Format?
Solving The Online Music Format Mess...
With Another Format?
12/11/2003 02:43 AMNow that every other company is starting a music download store (even
if no one is making any money off of it), people are beginning to
realize that maybe it makes sense to come up with a single format that
works for anyone. Of course, some might say that we've already got
formats that work, but the folks over in the recording industry seem
to have a mental block when it comes to the formats that everyone
likes to use. So, now, Microsoft, Universal Music and others, under
the title of the Content Reference Forum, are
teaming up to create a new music format - but one
that makes it easier for them to make you buy the music. There aren't
all that many details, but it appears to be going back to some of the
very original concepts behind a hypertext system: that content only
needs to be available once, and any time you want to access it, you
just link to it. In other words, instead of offering downloadable
music, the plan is to offer links to music that is served up remotely.
Of course, one of the "features" of such a system is that the content
providers can know (and, potentially, charge you) every time you want
to hear that certain song. It's an interesting idea, but it seems to
make the music
less valuable. Suddenly, it can only be
listened to from an internet connected machine, you don't actually own
anything, and the big content providers get to keep a big database of
exactly what songs you listen to when. Doesn't sound all that
appealing to me. The one thing that it
does have going for it,
is that it allows people to "share" - if, by share, you mean point
someone to a link and let them pay for it themselves.
Luxor Beta 5 released - GPL'ed Java XUL
toolkit (Java Lobby)
Luxor Beta 5 released - GPL'ed Java XUL
toolkit (Java Lobby)
07/03/2002 08:16 PMApple releases Java 3D, Java Advanced
Imaging update
Apple releases Java 3D, Java Advanced
Imaging update
12/18/2003 10:39 AMApple has released a Java 3D and Java Advanced Imaging update, which
contains support for the two technologies...
Apple offers Java 3D and Java Advanced
Imaging Update
Apple offers Java 3D and Java Advanced
Imaging Update
12/18/2003 10:36 AMApple has posted
Java 3D
and Java Advanced Imaging Update, a software update aimed at users
of Mac OS X v10.3.1 and Java 1.4.1 or higher. The new update is
available as a 9.5MB download from Apple's Web site.
Book review: Java & XML Data Binding
(Java Pro)
Book review: Java & XML Data Binding
(Java Pro)
08/26/2002 08:32 AMCritical Java Bug Targets Java Virtual
Machine
Critical Java Bug Targets Java Virtual
Machine
01/06/2005 12:02 PMSun renamed Java 1.5 to Java 2 Platform
Standard Edition 5.0
Sun renamed Java 1.5 to Java 2 Platform
Standard Edition 5.0
06/28/2004 07:54 PMAcross the street,
Sun renamed Java 1.5 to Java 2 Platform Standard Edition
5.0. Who comes up with this stuff?
Quest For "Unbreakable Java" Unites ABAP
& Java
Quest For "Unbreakable Java" Unites ABAP
& Java
01/03/2005 12:11 PMJava 3D and Java Advanced Imaging Update
1.0
Java 3D and Java Advanced Imaging Update
1.0
12/17/2003 09:38 PMExtends the Java platform, providing additional capabilities for
running three-dimensional graphics and more.
Java 3D and Java Advanced Imaging Update
Java 3D and Java Advanced Imaging Update
12/18/2003 05:48 AM
Apple has also released Java 3D and Java Advanced Imaging Update.
This update contains support for Java3D and Java Advanced Imaging.
Java 3D ext...
BlackJack for Java: A Java/Swing Oddessy
BlackJack for Java: A Java/Swing Oddessy
04/30/2004 06:19 AMTexas Holdem
Java 1.4.2 Update Removes Java SDK
Java 1.4.2 Update Removes Java SDK
02/10/2004 02:49 AM
If you previously had Java 1.4.1 and the Java SDK installed, the new
Java 1.4.2 update from apple will upgrade the Java runtime to 1.4.2,
but will remove the previous 1.4.1 Java runtime and
SDK without upgrading the JDK. To build Java packages in Fink
you will need to go to
connect.apple.com and download the Java 1.4.2 SDK (free
registration required).
java.util.concurrent for Java 1.4
java.util.concurrent for Java 1.4
12/19/2004 03:06 PM
One of the shiniest new feature of Java 5.0 (aka Java 1.5) is a
rich set of concurrent
programming classes in java.util.concurrent (aka JSR 166),
much of which is a
direct port of Doug Lea's Concurrent
Programming in Java library. Since I don't have the
luxury of using Java
5.0 yet, I've resorted to using Doug's original library which is,
for the most part,
functionally equivalent to java.util.concurrent but not close
enough for comfort,
particularly since concurrency code tend to be very sensitive to
minor changes.
The good news is that Dawid Kurzyniec
backported
java.util.concurrent package to run under Java 1.4 and made it
available as open
source. Apparently Sun is letting this happen because it's
own code is based
on Doug's open source library.
There are some shortcomings but nothing much to cry over. My
only complaint
is that it doesn't use the java.util.concurrent package name which
means I'll have
to update the package names later (simple but still change
nonetheless). But
that I can see the technical and legal issues preventing that from
happening.
I am just glad someone did this.
XCode Forums - Cocoa Cocoa-Java Carbon
Java AppleScript
XCode Forums - Cocoa Cocoa-Java Carbon
Java AppleScript
06/24/2004 02:52 PMGeneral XCode Discussion, Project Discussion, Compatibility,
Deployment, The Showroom. Languages: Cocoa, Cocoa-Java, Carbon,
AppleScript, Java. Additional Topics: Graphics and Gaming, Interface
Development
available in PDF format
available in PDF format
01/05/2005 06:43 PMPDF
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Format 1.1
Format 1.1
12/29/2003 09:49 AMA C++ format string library with printf-style format strings.
Which Format Will Win?
Which Format Will Win?
01/27/2004 06:26 PMApple will have to be innovative if it doesn't want to be marginalized
once again. By Heather Green (BusinessWeek via MyAppleMenu)
Top 6 XML and Java books
(java.about.com)
Top 6 XML and Java books
(java.about.com)
08/27/2002 11:51 AMJava 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0
Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0
07/04/2004 06:56 PMFortran-Format-0.50
Fortran-Format-0.50
04/22/2004 05:37 PMDateTime-Format-Pg-0.060
DateTime-Format-Pg-0.060
06/20/2004 06:57 AMDateTime-Format-Pg-0.06
DateTime-Format-Pg-0.06
06/20/2004 06:57 AMGames win for Blu-ray DVD format
Games win for Blu-ray DVD format
01/07/2005 04:25 AMBBC Jan 7 2005 8:17AM GMT
Forward with the format
Forward with the format
04/19/2004 09:47 PMUSA Today Apr 20 2004 1:51AM GMT
The Library of Google
