Humans are apparently much better than machines at decoding words than OCR scanners are, so Carnegie Mellon University is putting the unreadable words online for the world to decipher. All in the interest of enhancing their digitizing efforts for the…
In Educational Technology there’s a longish article pointing out the “good, bad and ugly” of Google Books. Includes a detailed view of how one university library system — University of California’s — is working with Google Books to get books…
Along with Google Books and the Internet Archive/Open Content Alliance, there is a lesser-known collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University Libaries and three international institutions (Zhejiang University 浙江大学, the Indian Institute of Science, and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina) to put “a collection…
