Comparing the Access to and Legibility of Japanese Language Texts in Massive Digital Libraries

Proceedings - 2015 International Conference on Culture and Computing, Culture and Computing 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 57-63

  Weiss, Andrew ^a   James, Ryan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

copyright; Google Books; Hathi Trust; mass digitization; Massive Digital Libraries (MDLs); metadata aggregation; public domain

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COPYRIGHTS; METADATA; RANDOM ERRORS;

GOOGLE BOOKS; HATHI TRUST; MASSIVE DIGITAL LIBRARIES (MDLS); METADATA AGGREGATION; PUBLIC DOMAINS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84964873078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Culture.and.Computing.2015.51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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