News tagged with digital library
Taming the vast -- and growing -- digital data-sphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are making an impressive effort to link up digital repositories to create a vast network of easy to search online data. The DRIVER project work - one of the largest efforts of its kind ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks
(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Google willing to share digital books with rivals
(AP) -- Google will let other online companies sell its digital copies of out-of-print books if a class-action settlement with U.S. authors and publishers wins court approval.
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Judge extends deadline to debate Google book deal
(AP) -- The final assault on a class-action settlement that would expand Google Inc.'s already vast digital library has been delayed until next week.
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Google to draw up new privacy policy for books
(AP) -- Google has agreed to draw up a separate privacy policy for its digital library in response to a request from the Federal Trade Commission.
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Amazon.com makes its case against Google book deal
(AP) -- Amazon.com is warning a federal judge that Google will be able to overcharge consumers and stifle competition if it wins court approval to add millions more titles to its already vast digital library.
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo! oppose Google book settlement
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined an alliance Wednesday opposing the legal settlement which would allow Internet giant Google to digitize and sell millions of books.
Aug 26, 2009 |
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New Web site to amplify debate on Google book deal
(AP) -- Caroline Vanderlip believes the escalating debate over Google Inc.'s plans for a vast Internet library of copyright-protected literature will yield enough compelling material to fill a book.
May 27, 2009 |
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Probing Question: How is the computer age changing libraries?
For those of us of a certain age — no need to put a number on it, thank you -- the word "library" still conjures forth memories of solid wood cabinets filled with hand-typed cards, each pointing to a book ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 21, 2009 |
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Univ. of Michigan, Google amend book scanning deal
(AP) -- The University of Michigan has amended a deal with Google Inc. to create digital copies of millions of library books and journals.
May 21, 2009 |
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Judge extends 'opt-out' deadline in Google book suit
A US judge on Tuesday extended for four months the deadline for authors to opt out of a settlement to a lawsuit over Google's plan to build the world's largest digital library.
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Humanity's earliest written works go online
(AP) -- National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity's earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to the first European map of the New World.
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Make that E-Hobbit: Digital Tolkien arrives
(AP) -- A major new name has been added to the digital library: J.R.R. Tolkien.
Apr 20, 2009 |
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World Digital Library to launch at UNESCO
The World Digital Library, a website offering free access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs from across the globe, launches Tuesday at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Apr 20, 2009 |
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