Monday, 21st August 2006

Let's Scan: The First Contribution from Univ. of Pittsburgh to Open Content Alliance

More to be digitized with new ULS scanner

Armed with stacks of antique books, a scanner and library administrators’ willingness to share, Pitt’s Digital Research Library is a partner in a project launched in 2005 by Yahoo! and the Internet Archive to build a searchable digital collection of the world’s books and multimedia content. Pitt’s contribution to the Open Content Alliance (www.opencontentalliance.org) will start with the Darlington Collection, known as one of the University’s richest sources of information on western Pennsylvania and Ohio Valley history. The books themselves, housed in the Darlington Library in the Cathedral of Learning, won’t be going anywhere, but the University Library System’s acquisition of a new scanner means the Darlington’s historic content will have a broader audience than ever before. “We have pledged to contribute digital books on Americana,” said ULS director Rush G. Miller, noting that the content of some 600 works already is available on line as part of the Historic Pittsburgh collection (a collaboration among Pitt, the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania and the Carnegie Museum of Art).

Source: University of Pittsburgh

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