Google will digitize old stuff..?!

elektro80

Google - TeleRead reports an article from the New York Times, which claims

Google has embarked on "Project Ocean" to digitise Stanford University's

library collection published before 1923. According to the article, Google

would provide access to the collection, which is no longer limited by

copyright restrictions, through its service. TeleRead also reports on

Google's move to include WorldCat records from OCLC in its search results

with the prefix "Find in a library."

Source:

TeleRead

Title:
Stanford, Google to digitize pre-1923 books

01 Feb 2004

Source website:

http://www.teleread.org

seraph · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:10 am Post subject:

awesome

themoors · Joined: Dec 15, 2003 Posts: 148 Location: northern england

Well its good to see somthing useful coming out of the net...somtimes it seems like its all porn and electronic music message-boa.... whoops...sorry!

anyway reminds me of this, http://promo.net/pg/

worth a look if you like your classics but cant afford £1 - $2 for the paperback

mosc · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:18 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:23 am Post subject:

OK, we have the electronic music.... checking... mmm

Project Gutenberg is cool.

And http://www.loc.goc/ is fantastic. A real treasure chest! I hope the BBC will soon get on with the publishing of all the archive material. I really hope they will NOT use Realmedia formats for the audio and the video.