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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Given all the greats, from Austen to Dickens, the 19th century may have been the time for the novel. But zillions of words from then still need to be scanned, and beyond the withdrawal of Microsoft from the public domain scene, other challenges abound. Here’s one. "OCR technology for 19th and early 20th century type fonts [...]
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Joho the Blog (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Jacob Kramer-Duffield at the Berkman Center explains the significance of Google's new ability to search the copyright renewal notices for books published between 1923 and 1963. Publishers of those books had to file a renewal notice to hold on to their copyrights. It's been very difficult to determine whether those ...
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Walt at Random (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Here’s this week’s post at PLN Highlights: What’s new at PALINET Leadership Network? The June 2008 PLN Challenge offers Advice for interim library directors–and we’d love to hear your advice, especially if you’ve been in such a position. Libraries in the new age summarizes Robert Darnton’s thoughtful article in the New York Review of Books and adds notes [...]
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DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Microsoft's decision to end its Live Search Books program, which provided important funding for the Open Content Alliance, has been widely covered by newspapers, blogs, and other information sources. Here's a selection of articles and posts: "Books Scanning to be Publicly Funded," "'It Ain’t Over Till It's Over': Impact of the Microsoft Shutdown," "Microsoft Abandons Live [...]
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Information Today (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
As of May 30, Microsoft (www.microsoft.com, www.live.com) ended the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects initiated in 2006, in obvious competition with Google Book Search (originally Google Print) launched in 2003 and Google Scholar begun in 2004. Both library and publisher partners of Microsoft began the scramble for alternatives.
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The Command Line (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Developer speaks out on Twitter outages The core problem they identified is a mismatched design. Twitter was original built as a CMS but is scaling like a messaging system. They are going to attempt an incremental re-write. The benefit of killing Live Book Search Microsoft is ending its involvement with the Open Content Alliance. Kahle, [...]
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SpellboundBlog.com (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
I attended a THATCamp session on Text Mining. There were between 15 and 20 people in attendance. I have done my best to attribute ideas to their originators wherever possible - but please forgive the fact that I did not catch the names of everyone who was part of this session. What Is Text Mining? Text mining [...]
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booktwo.org (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
PODULARITY ? Authors and books. In a pod. - An interesting-sounding author interview podcast. Microsoft hands Google the future of digital books | The Register - Microsoft is shutting down Live Book Search, and, more worryingly, ending its funding of the Open Content Alliance.
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive rejoices that Microsoft is killing Live Book Search and the related book digitization activities. I’m of mixed mind here. On one hand, I myself would hate to see literature and knowledge so dependent on the goodwill of individual corporations. Under the TeleRead proposal, nations would have a decentralized [...]
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Microsoft is abandoning its Live Book Search venture after withdrawing from the Open Content Alliance digitization project. The company announced Friday that it will shut down the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic websites and stop scanning library and copyright books, instead relying on other library and digitization partners for book content. Microsoft had scanned [...]
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The Register (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Here, have a monopoly While Bill Gates now holds a lucrative monopoly on digital images, his successors don't see the same prosperous future for the digital word. Microsoft is withdrawing from the Open Content Alliance digitisation project and will cease to scan books, the company said on Friday. It's abandoning its Live Book Search venture - a curious decision, since it effectively hands the future...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is abandoning its effort to scan whole libraries and make their contents searchable, a sign it may be getting choosier about the fights it will pick with Google Inc.
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
Microsoft Corp. is abandoning its effort to scan whole libraries and make their contents searchable, a sign it may be getting choosier about the fights it will pick with Google Inc.
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Time (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Microsoft Corp. is abandoning its effort to scan whole libraries and make their contents searchable
