More free, searchable books and other content online
According to today's SearchDay, "Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable and accessible online." The article goes on to describe this opt-in system (permission must be obtained from the copyright holder to include material, unless it is in the public domain, and Creative Commons licenses are encouraged). Libraries and others are encouraged to join the alliance. Read more.
posted by Freya at 9:46 AM
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I came upon a bizarre theory in an article I was reading for my MLS class. The author (Abbott, Andrew. "Professionalism and the future of librarianship." Library Trends 46.n3 (Wntr 1998): 430(14).) discussed how digitization of materials would lead to a standardization of format which would eventually allow for artificial intelligence to "interpret" these texts as data a formulate theories, arguments etc. Bizarre!.
Interesting. They are doing amazing things with artificial intelligence, but I can't help think that we'll need real people for a while yet. Perhaps I'm just biased!
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