$2 Million Sloan Foundation Grant To Help Library Of Congress Digitize Thousands Of "Brittle" Books, Develop eBook Technology, Launch Metadata Pilot
It will be interesting to see if these titles become available through other sources like the Open Content Alliance, Microsoft Live Books, and Google Books. Recently, the Sloan Foundation awarded a $1 million grant to The Open Content Alliance. The program is named "Digitizing American Imprints at the Library of Congress."
In addition to the digitization, some of the money will be used to:
+ Launch a pilot program to capture metadata (table-of contents, chapters/sections, index, etc.).
From the announcement:
The project, "Digitizing American Imprints at the Library of Congress," will include not only the scanning of volumes, but also the development of suitable page-turner display technology, capability to scan and display foldouts, and a pilot program to capture high-level metadata, such as table of contents, chapters/sections and index. Past digitization projects have shied away from brittle books because of the condition of the materials, but "Digitizing American Imprints" intends to serve as a demonstration project of best practices for the handling and scanning of such vulnerable works.
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