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Wednesday, 20th December 2006

Alfred P. Sloan Sloan Awards $1 Million To Open Content Alliance/Internet Archive

From a News.com story:

The grant from the Sloan charitable trust will enable Internet Archive and the OCA [Open Content Alliance] to scan collections from several major institutions, including the entire collection of publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as several thousand images from the museum; John Adams' personal library of over 3,800 works at the Boston Public Library; and other collections from The Getty Research Institute, Johns Hopkins University and the University of California Berkeley

The article goes on to say:

Yahoo is a supporter of the OCA and has helped the OCA index some of the scanned content, but its project is smaller than those of Google and Microsoft, according to Gregory Crane, a classics professor and digital library expert at Tufts University.

Microsoft was an early supporter of the OCA and in June worked with it on a project scanning and indexing materials from the University of California and the University of Toronto libraries as part of its Windows Live Book Search project. But Microsoft has become more proprietary in recent months, Kahle said.

"We continue to work with Microsoft, but the results going forward are not strictly OCA principles," Kahle later added in an e-mail. "To their credit, they are interested in helping get more scanning done in the open, of course because they can use the books as well, but still, this is more than other projects.

See Also: Brewster Kahle Posts About More Libraries Going "Open" (via Internet Archive)
He also notes that the IA site is now home to more than 100,000 full text books.

See Also: Google Book-Scanning Efforts Spark Debate (via AP)

See Also: The Internet Archive is Also Home to The Wayback Machine
We recently posted that The Wayback Machine now offers access to over 85 Billion Pages

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

See Also: RLG Joins Open Content Alliance

See Also: A Wall St. Journal Article About Book Scanning at the University of Toronto

See Also: Danny Sullivan Shares Some Thoughts on Scanning (via SEL)

UPDATE: Walt Crawford's: Book Searching: OCA/GBS Update (via Cites and Insights, Thanks to Notess for the news tip)


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