Clever idea to put the TicToc stuff 'in the cloud'. How are you going to
keep it up-to-date ?
Peter
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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Boheemen, Peter van
peter.vanbohee...@wur.nl wrote:
Clever idea to put the TicToc stuff 'in the cloud'. How are you going to
keep it up-to-date ?
By periodically reuploading the entire set (which takes about 15-20
mins), new or changed records can be updated. A
fyi - [the Google Book Settlement] should not be approved
A Book Grab by Google
by Brewster Kahle
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Washington Post | Opinions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/18/AR2009051802637.html
/st...@archive.org
Google isn't a dumb company. They knew this would be the result all along.
The real losers here are the libraries, especially the ones that funded the
packaging and transport of their materials to the Google scanning centers
(because Google didn't pay for that, fyi) But hey, it looks good to be
On 5/19/09 5/19/09 9:59 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
Google isn't a dumb company. They knew this would be the result all along.
The real losers here are the libraries, especially the ones that funded the
packaging and transport of their materials to the Google scanning centers
Roy Tennant wrote:
I think that's an overly pessimistic assessment. There is a growing corpus
of freely available content being managed by the Hathi Trust[1], that
already numbers in the hundreds of thousands of volumes, and soon likely to
be over a million. Also, since government documents
It's true that we have buns in the oven that are promissing.
But it's also worth noting that HathiTrust mainly came about via the
Google partnership, and they have certain limitations on what they can
do with their scans that came out of the Google partnership (the current
vast majority), as
On May 19, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
But hey, it looks good to be part of such a prestigious
group of libraries in partnering with Google to
deliver content freely* to the public!
...I think that's an overly pessimistic assessment. There
is a growing corpus of freely available
BTW, we are sponsoring a mini-symposium on the topic of mass digitization
here at Notre Dame, tomorrow:
http://www.library.nd.edu/symposium/
Nice timing.
--joe
BTW, we are sponsoring a mini-symposium on the topic of mass digitization
here at Notre Dame, tomorrow:
Any protesters expected? ;)
T
On May 19, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
I applaud the Internet Archive and the Open Content Alliance's
efforts. archive.org++
Try this hack with Google Books, not.
$ echo http://ia300206.us.archive.org/3/items/librariesreaders00fostuoft/
libraries.urls
$ echo
On May 19, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
On May 19, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
I applaud the Internet Archive and the Open Content Alliance's
efforts. archive.org++
Try this hack with Google Books, not.
$ echo
also, if your script can handle a redirect, you can use
our locator to find each item, e.g.
http://www.archive.org/download/librariesreaders00fostuoft/
http://www.archive.org/download/developmentofchi00tancuoft/
http://www.archive.org/download/rulesregulations00brituoft/
as the data does
No intention to spoil our users and our fun with vuFIND. Just taking stock
after 1-2 years of working with vuFIND, here are few general questions,
Hi Yaaqov.
Here's my take (and I'm cc'ing several of my colleagues in case they want to
add or dispute anything):
1. is vuFIND primarily an
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