Eric, thanks-
I was actually going to post something to the drupal4lib list later today.
I intend to start developing this (I don't yet have permission from my
library, but I expect it'll be ok) and would love to do the development
simultaneously with folks at other libraries who are interested
The challenge I like to present to libraries is this: imagine that your entire
collection is digital. Does it include Shakespeare? Does it include Moby Dick?
Yes! Just because you don't have to pay for these works, doesn't mean that they
don't belong in your library. And what if many modern
On Apr 10, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
I'd love to see libraries creating online conversations around
ebooks in much the same way. Take a title from project Gutenberg:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Why not host that book
directly on my library website so that it can be
On Apr 10, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Nate Hill wrote:
Karen and Peter, I completely agree with your feelings-
But my point in throwing this idea out there was that despite all of
the copyright issues, we don't really do a great job making a simple,
intuitive, branded interface for the works that
To a greater degree, I think libraries ought to be putting into practice the
principles of our profession against public domain works. Collection.
Preservation. Organization. Dissemination. Take EEBO (Early English Books
Online), for example. Why couldn't the library community create
I appreciate the spirit of this, but despair at the idea that
libraries organize their services around public domain works, thus
becoming early 20th century institutions. The gap between 1923 and
2011 is huge, and it makes no sense to users that a library provide
services based on
I, too, have been struggling with this aspect of the discussion. (I'm on the
DPLA list as well.) There seems to be this blind spot within the leadership of
the group to ignore the copyright problem and any interaction with publishers
of popular materials. One of the great hopes that I have for
Eric, thanks for finding enough merit in my post on the DPLA listserv
to repost it here.
Karen and Peter, I completely agree with your feelings-
But my point in throwing this idea out there was that despite all of
the copyright issues, we don't really do a great job making a simple,
intuitive,
I guess that people may already be familiar with the Candide 2.0 project at
NYPL http://candide.nypl.org/text/ - this sounds not dissimilar to the type of
approach being suggested
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I'm familiar with it, and I love it. Love the
Commentpresshttp://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/work as
well.
This project addresses participation and scholarly communication (nicely),
not the interface by which you access it. If you think about the audience
at a public library, it'd be
The DPLA listserv is probably too impractical for most of Code4Lib, but Nate
Hill (who's on this list as well) made this contribution there, which I think
deserves attention from library coders here.
On Apr 5, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Nate Hill wrote:
It is awesome that the project Gutenberg stuff
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