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December 13, 2004
Project Ocean
A very good idea. The world's universal library moves another step towards reality:
Boing Boing: Battelle's scoop on Google's University library project: John Battelle has the scoop on Google's "Project Ocean." From an email he received: "Harvard University is embarking on a collaboration with Google that could harness Google's search technology to provide to both the Harvard community and the larger public a revolutionary new information location tool to find materials available in libraries. In the coming months, Google will collaborate with Harvard's libraries on a pilot project to digitize a substantial number of the 15 million volumes held in the University's extensive library system. Google will provide online access to the full text of those works that are in the public domain. In related agreements, Google will launch similar projects with Oxford, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library."
Posted by DeLong at December 13, 2004 07:37 PM
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