Internet Archiveも図書館の蔵書をデジタル化

14日に米Googleが図書館の蔵書をデジタル化・検索できるようにするプロジェクトを発表したが、米Internet Archiveも同様のプロジェクトを進めている。

Information World Reviewによると、米カーネギーメロン大学図書館や米国議会図書館、中国の浙江大学など世界の10の図書館と提携、蔵書のデジタル化と全文テキスト検索を実現するという。この Internet Archive Text Projectにより、永続的に公開されたオープンアクセス・アーカイブを目指すという。

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In a statement, the Internet Archive describes the Text Archive as an Open Access archive that will "ensure permanent and public access to our published heritage". Over a million books have been committed to the Text Archive by the member institutes, with 50,000 available in the first quarter of 2005. (Internet Archive to build alternative to Google, Information World Review, 21-12-2004)

Google can certainly steal the media thunder, but it isn't the only game in town. Earlier this month, the San Francisco-based Internet Archive announced partnerships with a number of international libraries, including the Library of Congress, the University of Toronto, and Carnegie Mellon University, as well as the Bibliotheca Alexandria in Egypt, Zhejiang University in China, and the Netherlands-based European Archive--all part of an ongoing effort launched in 2003 to scan books. The goal of the Internet Archive text project is to put digitized books into "open-access archives," ensuring easy--and continuous--access for the public. (Internet Archive, Libraries Collaborate on Open-Access Text Archives, Library Journal, 12/27/2004)