News tagged with library archive

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.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

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.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

UCLA team creates virtual library of medieval manuscripts

Google "Edward the Confessor" and you'll get page after page of links to biographies of this 11th-century English king, to Westminster Abbey, which he founded and where he is buried, and to the Magna Carta, which was partly ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New Shakespeare Archive launched

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Shakespeare Quartos Archive has been officially launched today with a complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0