{"id":97,"date":"2004-12-14T10:34:47","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T15:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2004\/12\/14\/google-digital-library\/"},"modified":"2004-12-14T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T15:34:47","slug":"google-digital-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2004\/12\/14\/google-digital-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Digital Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database<br \/>\nBy JOHN MARKOFF  and EDWARD WYATT<br \/>\nGoogle plans to begin converting the holdings of leading<br \/>\nresearch libraries into digital files that would be<br \/>\nsearchable online.<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2004%2F12%2F14%2Ftechnology%2Fgoogle-is-adding-major-libraries-to-its-database.html#?secret=G3U1MwGZUW\" data-secret=\"G3U1MwGZUW\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8220;Google<br \/>\n,<br \/>\nthe operator of the world&#8217;s most popular Internet search service, plans<br \/>\nto announce an agreement today with some of the nation&#8217;s leading<br \/>\nresearch libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their<br \/>\nholdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web.<br \/>\nIt may be only a step on a long road toward the long-predicted global<br \/>\nvirtual library. But the collaboration of Google and research<br \/>\ninstitutions that also include Harvard, the University of Michigan,<br \/>\nStanford and the New York Public Library is a major stride in an<br \/>\nambitious Internet effort by various parties. The goal is to expand the<br \/>\nWeb beyond its current valuable, if eclectic, body of material and<br \/>\ncreate a digital card catalog and searchable library for the world&#8217;s<br \/>\nbooks, scholarly papers and special collections.<br \/>\nGoogle &#8211; newly wealthy from its stock offering last summer &#8211; has agreed<br \/>\nto underwrite the projects being announced today while also adding its<br \/>\nown technical abilities to the task of scanning and digitizing tens of<br \/>\nthousands of pages a day at each library.<br \/>\nAlthough Google executives declined to comment on its technology or<br \/>\nthe cost of the undertaking, others involved estimate the figure at $10<br \/>\nfor each of the more than 15 million books and other documents covered<br \/>\nin the agreements. Librarians involved predict the project could take at<br \/>\nleast a decade.<br \/>\nBecause the Google agreements are not exclusive, the pacts are almost<br \/>\ncertain to touch off a race with other major Internet search providers<br \/>\nlike Amazon<br \/>\n,<br \/>\nMicrosoft<\/p>\n<p>and Yahoo<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nLike Google, they might seek the right to offer online access to library<br \/>\nmaterials in return for selling advertising, while libraries would<br \/>\nreceive corporate help in digitizing their collections for their own<br \/>\ninstitutional uses.<br \/>\n&#8220;Within two decades, most of the world&#8217;s knowledge will be digitized and<br \/>\navailable, one hopes for free reading on the Internet, just as there is<br \/>\nfree reading in libraries today,&#8221; said Michael A. Keller, Stanford<br \/>\nUniversity&#8217;s head librarian.<br \/>\nThe Google effort and others like it that are already under way,<br \/>\nincluding projects by the Library of Congress to put selections of its<br \/>\nbest holdings online, are part of a trend to potentially democratize<br \/>\naccess to information that has long been available to only small, select<br \/>\ngroups of students and scholars.<br \/>\nLast night the Library of Congress and a group of international<br \/>\nlibraries from the United States, Canada, Egypt, China and the<br \/>\nNetherlands announced a plan to create a publicly available digital<br \/>\narchive of one million books on the Internet. The group said it planned<br \/>\nto have 70,000 volumes online by next April.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe rest is at:<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2004%2F12%2F14%2Ftechnology%2Fgoogle-is-adding-major-libraries-to-its-database.html#?secret=G3U1MwGZUW\" data-secret=\"G3U1MwGZUW\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database By JOHN MARKOFF and EDWARD WYATT Google plans to begin converting the holdings of leading research libraries into digital files that would be searchable online. &#8220;Google , the operator of the world&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2004\/12\/14\/google-digital-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}