links for 2010-10-29
Saturday 30 October 2010
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How to use linked data technology to achieve this goal: provide the data with an open license which allows its reuse for such purposes, and support the APIs, data standards and client software to lower the barrier to participation in information curation and sharing.[…]”
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There are currently 125318 persons, 12840 items and 299141 works in the database.
That is 2.38705533124 works and 0.10245934343 items average per person.”
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Given the fact that Google must make the public domain scans freely available and that the scans, which already have relatively few limitations on them will now become the full property of libraries in 15 years, as well as the presence of most of these scans in the Hathi Trust database, one has to wonder about the utility of well-meaning efforts such as those of the Internet Archive to capture and store copies of the Google scans. The only people who immediately benefit from the presence of Google’s scans in the Internet Archive are Google’s commercial competitors. I have to believe the public as a whole would be better served if the Internet Archive focused instead on those scans of public domain works that are locked away behind subscription firewalls.”
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“Lo único que está haciendo la digitalización es incrementar la cadena de valor de los derechos de contenido; les está abriendo otra ventana”, añadió ayer Boos durante el acto de presentación oficial de la feria para tranquilizar a los más veteranos del sector. Pero también anunció que “las negociaciones por esos derechos están siendo más complicadas que nunca”. Y eso lo saben bien los agentes literarios que hoy abren sus chiringuitos: una competencia feroz entre la friolera de 552 agentes, casi un 4% más que el año pasado. Ante el futuro digital, ¿quién dijo crisis?”