News tagged with digital library
University of California librarians urge boycott of Nature journals
University of California librarians are urging professors not to submit research to Nature or 66 related journals to protest a 400 percent increase in the publisher's prices.
Jun 11, 2010 |
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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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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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French technology upstart challenges Google
(AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help from American ...
Dec 17, 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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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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EU launches digital library at Frankfut Book Fair
The European Union used the world's biggest book fair to launch the EU Bookshop's digital library, making more than 50 years of documents in about 50 languages available for free on the Internet.
Oct 18, 2009 |
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Chinese paper accuses Google of hampering searches
(AP) -- Google Inc. faces a new controversy in China after a Web site run by the Communist Party's main newspaper accused the U.S. search giant of trying to keep Internet users away following its reports ...
Oct 27, 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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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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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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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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Making Braille music universally accessible
(PhysOrg.com) -- Blind musicians have had restricted access to scores due to the scarcity and limitations of Braille transcriptions. A new European system makes music for the blind more available and far easier ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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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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British Library puts 19th C newspapers online
(AP) -- The newspaper coverage was troubling: London's huge international showcase was beset by planning problems, local opposition and labor woes - and the transport was a mess.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Digital library
A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. A digital library is a type of information retrieval system.
The DELOS Digital Library Reference Model defines a digital library as:
An organization, which might be virtual, that comprehensively collects, manages and preserves for the long term rich digital content, and offers to its user communities specialized functionality on that content, of measurable quality and according to codified policies.
The first use of the term digital library in print may have been in a 1988 report to the Corporation for National Research Initiatives The term digital libraries was first popularized by the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative in 1994. These draw heavily on As We May Think by Vannevar Bush in 1945, which set out a vision not in terms of technology, but user experience. The term virtual library was initially used interchangeably with digital library, but is now primarily used for libraries that are virtual in other senses (such as libraries which aggregate distributed content).
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