[SCC_Active_Members] In Challenge to Google, Yahoo Will Also Scan Books

[Gust, Kathe]

In Challenge to Google, Yahoo Will Scan Books
New York Times (10/03/05) P. C1; Hafner, Katie 

The goal of the Yahoo-led Open Content Alliance (OCA) is to digitize
hundreds of thousands of books and technical papers and put them online
for anyone to access. The project stands to rival Google's effort to
create a searchable archive of library collections, but without running
the risk of copyright violation, because the OCA will initially
concentrate on digitizing works in the public domain. Furthermore, the
alliance is seeking permission from copyright holders and is making
works available via a Creative Commons license, where the copyright
holder sets usage conditions. In another break from the Google project,
OCA's digitized works will be accessible to any search engine. Among the
organizations and institutions participating in the OCA is the Internet
Archive, which will perform the actual digitization and archival of
books. The University of California, meanwhile, will contribute up to
$500,000 to the project in its first year and scan 5,000 volumes of
early American fiction initially; an additional 5,000 to 15,000 volumes
will be scanned within the next year. "Our approach is very
collection-focused, to seed meaningful collections and get other
libraries around the world to do the same," says UC California Digital
Library librarian Dr. Daniel Greenstein.


 
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