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	1.5 million works and counting- online

wildcat

11-28-2007 5:57 AM

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Most importantly, he said, this is an undertaking of preservation for all humankind.

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Having the backing of prominent institutions such as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, however, the collection goes far beyond the widely available classics, though those are there, too.</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://www.news.com/Online-library-offers-1.5-million-works-and-counting/2100-1025_3-6220358.html?tag=newsmap"><P>"You're not going to find over 900,000 works in Chinese on Google," said Michael Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and director of intellectual property for the Universal Digital Library (UDL).</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://www.news.com/Online-library-offers-1.5-million-works-and-counting/2100-1025_3-6220358.html?tag=newsmap"><P>In fact, there are many differences between <A title="Google: These books are free -- Wednesday, Aug 30, 2006" href="http://www.news.com/Google-These-books-are-free/2100-1032_3-6110950.html">the book-scanning projects that Google</A> and <A title="U.C. system signs on to Microsoft book-scan project -- Friday, Jun 9, 2006" href="http://www.news.com/U.C.-system-signs-on-to-Microsoft-book-scan-project/2100-1025_3-6082258.html">even Microsoft</A> are doing, and the UDL, according to Shamos. </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/E5AA1E80-A93B-4B84-8F24-62D9D4E0BA72/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.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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