International Libraries and the Internet Archive collaborate to build Open-Access Text Archives
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Digitization Projects--Books
No, It's Not Google: International Libraries and the Internet Archive collaborate to build Open-Access Text Archives
I have a funny feeling that this exciting news from the IA got overlooked yesterday. We have a couple of other items about the Million Book Project in yesterday's Google/Library post. "By working with libraries from 5 countries, and working to expand this number, we are bringing a broad range of materials to every interested individual. This growing commitment to open access through public archives marks a significant commitment to broad, public, and free access. While still early in its evolution, works in dozens of languages are already stored in the Internet Archive's Open-Access Text Archive offering a breadth of materials to everyone. Over one million books have been committed to the Text Archive. Currently over twenty-seven thousand are available and an additional fifty thousand are expected in the first quarter of 2005. Advanced processing of these multilingual books will offer unprecedented access."
-- Archives--Standards
Source: National Archives (U.K.) The National Archives Standard for record repositories and the Framework of Standards
"The new National Archives Standard is the recognised benchmark for all aspects of caring for records and providing access to them. This new Standard also includes guidance on the preservation of digital and electronic records."
-- National Libraries--U.K. Online page turner takes top award
Congrats to the Turning the Pages (TTP) team. If you've never checked out TTP, you should!!!
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