Digital library exceeds 1 million books


	Digital library exceeds 1 million books

skwirlinator

11-28-2007 1:14 PM

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11-28-2007 8:09 PM

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http://www.library.cmu.edu/

11-28-2007 8:10 PM

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                        PITTSBURGH - Nearly a decade ago, computer scientists at <SPAN id="lw_1196201369_0" class="yshortcuts">Carnegie Mellon University</SPAN> embarked on a project with an astonishingly lofty goal: Digitize the published works of humankind and make them freely available online.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/ap_en_ot/digital_library"><P>"Anyone who can get on the Internet now has access to a collection of books the size of a large university library," said Raj Reddy, a computer science and robotics professor at the university who spearheaded the project.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/ap_en_ot/digital_library"><P>At least half the books are out of copyright or scanned with the permission of copyright holders. Excerpts of copyright-protected works are available, though organizers expect complete texts to become available eventually.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/ap_en_ot/digital_library"><P>The United States, China and India each have contributed $10 million in cash and contributions to the project, undertaken with partners at China's Zhejiang University, India's <SPAN id="lw_1196201369_4" class="yshortcuts">Indian Institute of Science</SPAN> and <SPAN id="lw_1196201369_5" class="yshortcuts">Egypt</SPAN>'s Library at <SPAN id="lw_1196201369_6" class="yshortcuts">Alexandria</SPAN>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/08162594-A589-4FC1-889F-2BADFB487C9D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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