Friday, December 02, 2005
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed By Library Of Congress & Google: "By Danny Sullivan, Editor & Gary Price, News Editor
November 22, 2005
The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library today, a project that's also just received its first $3 million in funding from Google.
The concept behind the WDL is to use public and private money to create a virtual library giving anyone access to the world's 'rare and unique cultural materials,' according to a joint press release about the project from the Library of Congress and Google. Google is only the first of what's hoped will be many donors...
...Over the past year, Google has digitized about 5,000 public domain books from the Library of Congress, material that may ultimately end up in Google Book Search, though it's not currently listed there yet. Google will continue scanning public domain books from the Library of Congress Law Library. Google said it's too early to tell if any of the scanning work it has already done will end up in the WDL..."
November 22, 2005
The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library today, a project that's also just received its first $3 million in funding from Google.
The concept behind the WDL is to use public and private money to create a virtual library giving anyone access to the world's 'rare and unique cultural materials,' according to a joint press release about the project from the Library of Congress and Google. Google is only the first of what's hoped will be many donors...
...Over the past year, Google has digitized about 5,000 public domain books from the Library of Congress, material that may ultimately end up in Google Book Search, though it's not currently listed there yet. Google will continue scanning public domain books from the Library of Congress Law Library. Google said it's too early to tell if any of the scanning work it has already done will end up in the WDL..."
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