http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/09/28/coalition-of-boston-libraries-chooses-the-un-google-route-to-digitization/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:30:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/09/28/coalition-of-boston-libraries-chooses-the-un-google-route-to-digitization/comment-page-1/#comment-1723 Choosing the Un-Google | Library Stuff Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:32:50 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/09/28/coalition-of-boston-libraries-chooses-the-un-google-route-to-digitization/#comment-1723 [...] Wade Roush - “If there’s one thing New England has in great supply, it’s books. And that makes the area one of the battlegrounds in the digital library wars—the competition between commercial entities such as Google and Microsoft and non-profit groups such as the Internet Archive to secure agreements to scan, digitize, and distribute the world’s print literature. This week a large subset of the region’s libraries threw their weight behind the non-profit camp, signaling the growing resistance to Google’s professed goal of organizing “all the world’s information.” Posted in Google | Trackback | del.icio.us | Top Of Page [...] [...] Wade Roush – “If there’s one thing New England has in great supply, it’s books. And that makes the area one of the battlegrounds in the digital library wars—the competition between commercial entities such as Google and Microsoft and non-profit groups such as the Internet Archive to secure agreements to scan, digitize, and distribute the world’s print literature. This week a large subset of the region’s libraries threw their weight behind the non-profit camp, signaling the growing resistance to Google’s professed goal of organizing “all the world’s information.” Posted in Google | Trackback | del.icio.us | Top Of Page [...]

]]> http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/09/28/coalition-of-boston-libraries-chooses-the-un-google-route-to-digitization/comment-page-1/#comment-1686 Truemors :: Boston Libraries Blow Off Google Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:27:06 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/09/28/coalition-of-boston-libraries-chooses-the-un-google-route-to-digitization/#comment-1686 [...] Boston Library Consortium of nineteen college, state, and university libraries chose the the Open Content Alliance (OCA) as it main technology partner. The goal is to digitize [...] [...] Boston Library Consortium of nineteen college, state, and university libraries chose the the Open Content Alliance (OCA) as it main technology partner. The goal is to digitize [...]

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