Google To Digitize Much of Harvard's Library 296
FJCsar writes "According to an e-mail sent today to Harvard students, Google will collaborate with Harvard's libraries on a pilot project to digitize a substantial number of the 15 million volumes held in the University's extensive library system, which is second only to the Library of Congress in the number of volumes it contains. Google will provide online access to the full text of those works that are in the public domain. In related agreements, Google will launch similar projects with Oxford, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library. As of 9 am on December 14, a FAQ detailing the Harvard pilot program with Google will be available at hul.harvard.edu."
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Re:Not Just Harvard (Score:5, Funny)
hah (Score:1, Funny)
So... (Score:4, Funny)
Google to cache the Universe (Score:3, Funny)
15 million volumes? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah but Harvard? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:15 million volumes? (Score:3, Funny)
From Fascinating Facts About the Library of Congress: [loc.gov]
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, 5 million music items and 57 million manuscripts.
So to answer your question, it's about 0.52 LoC if you count only the books. :)
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Yes, but it'll be mixed in with ads for V14gr4, male "enhancement", and Nigerian wealth opportunities. When the scientists complain, the humanities faculty will protest that spam is a perfectly valid epistemology, and that the scientists' attempt to impose an orthodoxy of "truth" in advertising is simply a power grab to extend Western, white male hegemony. At which point, the scientists will defect to MIT's library down the street.
Cheers,
IT
Do no evil. (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they could do something really evil to Microsoft, and then we could say: ``Well, you digitized Harvard's library, so we'll let it pass this time.''
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Re:Are these volumes stored as text or pictures? (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:15 million volumes? (Score:5, Funny)
He means just books and such. It's not fair counting umbrellas.
Re:Nice! (Score:1, Funny)
You're not the spell checker, huh?
Re:michigan even worse?! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:15 million volumes? (Score:3, Funny)
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Sorry, I still don't understand... Could you express that in terms of how man shuttle explosions would be required to completely destroy one BL?
Re:Both Images & Uncorrected OCR should be ava (Score:3, Funny)
I see they've recently added the complete run of the Journal of the U.S. Association of Charcoal Iron Workers. If I'd known that, I could've saved a bundle on gift subscriptions...