What do you do with a million books?

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 5-12

  Crane, Gregory ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33645073663     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: 10829873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/march2006-crane     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. The card catalogue has exerted the most problematic incunabular effect upon digital libraries, with digital libraries trying to replicate card catalogues while users want content, The popularity of Google and the unfortunate demise of classification based systems such as Northernlight illustrated user impatience with catalogue-like approaches. On this topic, see Carl Lagoze, et al. "What is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway?: Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL" D-Lib, November 2005, 〈doi: 10.1045/november2005-lagoze〉.
2. For an excellent review of the potential of synthetic documents within a universal digital library, particularly in terms of solving copyright issues, please see Michael Ian Shamos, "Machines as readers: a solution to the copyright problem," J. Zhejiang Univ, Science 6A, 11, pp. 1179-1187 (Nov. 2005).
3. For a discussion of how language models can be used to date a historical text, please see F. de Jong, et al., "Temporal Language Models for the Disclosure of Historical Text", XVIth International Conference of the Association for History and Computing, 2005.
4. These three features are well established: information retrieval systems that employ user feedback are well documented in the literature and perform all three functions: they can break text objects down into small chunks and return snippets from the whole, they analyze their corpora automatically, and they recalculate results based on user responses. Data and text mining systems combine automated analysis and user feedback to analyze more diverse data sets. Digital libraries such as the Amazon.com commercial web site relentlessly recombine their items in an attempt to create more attractive combinations of objects for their customers. More recently, the Mellon-funded Nora text mining project has begun creating an interactive text classification system that exploits the markup of TEI-conformant documents, Please see, Catherine Plaisant, et al., "Exploring Erotics in Emily Dickinson's Correspondence with Text Mining and Visual Interfaces," 〈http://hcil.cs.urnd.edu/trs/2006-01/ 2006-01.pdf〉.
5. Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Million Book Project FAQ, 〈http://www. library.cmu.edu/Libraries/MBP_FAQ.html〉.
6. Brian Lavoie, et al. "Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries." D-Lib Magazine, September 2005, 〈doi:10.1045/september2005-lavoie〉.
7. Open Content Alliance (OCA) home page, 〈http://www. opencontentalliance.org/〉.
8. EU i2010: 〈http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/ index_en.htm〉.
9. For a comprehensive overview of the copyright issues faced by universal digital libraries, please see Hannibal Travis, "Building Universal Digital Libraries: An Agenda For Copyright Reform, " Forthcoming, Pepperdine Law Review, available at 〈http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id= 793585〉.
10. The Michigan Home page for the Making of America (last change November 15, 2005), 〈http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/〉. claims "9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints," including 12,007 volumes in all.
11. The Cornell Making of America 〈http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/) claims "267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles," representing 955 serial volumes.
12. Harvard College Library, 〈http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/〉.
13. DARPA Information Processing Technology Office, 〈http://www.darpa. mil/IPTO/solicitations/open/05-28_PIP.htm〉;
14. GALE - Global Autonomous Language Exploitation, 〈http://projects. ldc.upenn.edu/gale/〉;
15. Say What?: Global Autonomous Language Exploitation 〈http://www. military.com/soldiertech/0,14632, Soldiertech_Translator,00.html〉.
16. TERMINI, 〈http://www.uni-mannheini.de/mateo/termini/index. html〉.