{"id":46,"date":"2007-09-29T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T23:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asistubc.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/29\/british-librarys-digitization-project-with-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2011-01-03T20:12:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T04:12:01","slug":"british-librarys-digitization-project-with-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/2007\/09\/29\/british-librarys-digitization-project-with-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"British Library&#039;s Digitization Project with Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/\">British Library<\/a> to make the 19th century books at the Library available for viewing online &#8211; first via <a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/results.aspx?q=&amp;mkt=en-us&amp;scope=books&amp;FORM=LIVSOP\">Microsoft&#8217;s  Live Search Books<\/a> and then via the Library&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The books will be fully text searchable, meaning users will be able to look for keywords within a publication, making research easier and enhancing interaction with the material.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like Microsoft is competing with Google, which is doing digitization projects with Stanford, Harvard, and Michigan university libraries, the New York public library and the Bodleian library in Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7018210.stm\">BBC news<\/a>. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slaw.ca\/\">Steven Matthews<\/a> for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slaw.ca\/2007\/09\/28\/british-library-digitization-project\/\">news tips<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Microsoft is working with the British Library to make the 19th century books at the Library available for viewing online&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[142676,5566,5076],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-library","tag-digitization","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}