Note: This article was posted on UWire (via Yale Daily News) on September 10th. We still think it might be of interest to some of you.
Four months after Microsoft abruptly terminated its multi-million dollar book digitization deal with Yale University, campus officials said they will have to wait for donations or grants to come in before they start another major book scanning project.
The University still has some plans to continue digitizing materials held in its libraries and museums that are unique to Yale. Whether those materials will end up on the Internet, however, remains unclear.
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Associate University Librarian Ann Okerson said Yale is currently negotiating hosting agreements with Google and the Open Content Alliance, a collection of organizations adding to a public digital archive, but nothing has been finalized yet. Those deals, however, would only put the already-scanned volumes online.
Prochaska said the University would be interested in a “future contract with Google about digitizing material,” but added that Google is not looking to enter into such agreements right now.
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