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DAREnet opent database van wetenschappelijk publicaties
Door Bart Veldstra - woensdag 11 mei 2005 - 22:58 - Bron: The Register - Views: 5.094
The Register meldt dat gisteren wetenschappers van de grotere universiteiten in Nederland DAREnet (http://www.darenet.nl/page/language.view/home) officïeel in gebruik hebben genomen. De internetpagina is een verzameling van 47.000 wetenschappelijke werken van 16 digitale universitaire bibliotheken. DAREnet was een jaar geleden als demonstratie online gegaan. Het is een project van de Nederlandse universiteiten, de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, De Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen en de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek om al de digitale teksten en video- en audiomateriaal van onderzoekers onder te brengen in een doorzoekbare database die zonder kosten kan worden geraadpleegd. Steeds meer universiteiten klagen over de hoge bedragen die commerciële uitgevers vragen voor wetenschappelijke tijdschriften, terwijl volgens hen onderzoeksresultaten vrij zouden moeten worden verstrekt.
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Google to scan famous libraries
Google is the world's most popular search engine
The libraries of five of the world's most important academic institutions are to be digitised by Google.
Scanned pages from books in the public domain will then be made available for search and reading online.
The full libraries of Michigan and Stanford universities, as well as archives at Harvard, Oxford and the New York Public Library are included.
Online pages from scanned books will not have adverts but will have links to online store Amazon, Google said.
Lengthy project
"The goal of the project is to unlock the wealth of information that is offline and bring it online," said Susan Wojcicki, director of product management at Google.
This is the day the world changes
John Wilkin, University of Michigan
There will also be links to public libraries so that the books can be borrowed. Google will not be paid for providing for the links.
It will take six years to digitise the full collection at Michigan, which contains seven million volumes.
Users will only have access to extracts and bibliographies of copyrighted works.
The New York library is allowing Google to include a small portion of books no longer covered by copyright.
Thousands of Oxford's rare books will be made available online
Harvard is limiting its participation to 40,000 books, while Oxford wants Google to scan books originally published in the 19th Century and held in the Bodleian Library.
A spokeswoman for Oxford University said the digitised books would include novels, poetry, political tracts and art books.
"Important works that are out of print or only available in a few libraries around the world will be made available to everyone," she said.
About one million books will be scanned by Google, less than 15% of the total collection held in the Bodleian.
"We hope that Oxford's contribution to this project will be of scholarly use, as well as general interest, to people around the world," said Reg Carr, director of Oxford University Library Services.
Impact on libraries
"It's a significant opportunity to bring our material to the rest of the world," said Paul LeClerc, president of the New York Public Library.
"It could solve an old problem: If people can't get to us, how can we get to them?"
"This is the day the world changes," said John Wilkin, a University of Michigan librarian working with Google.
"It will be disruptive because some people will worry that this is the beginning of the end of libraries.
"But this is something we have to do to revitalise the profession and make it more meaningful."
Maar dit staat daar los van denk ik.
Support for EU 'digital library'
A plan to create a vast digital library to preserve Europe's cultural heritage has received strong backing from European Union (EU) culture ministers.
Six EU nations said they supported the initiative at culture talks, which were also attended by more than 800 artists.
It would be similar to search giant Google's global virtual library plans.
It is planning a 10-year digitisation project to make works from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford university libraries freely-available online.
EU officials and cultural commentators have voiced concern that Google's ambitious plans could result in important European literary works missing out and being lost to future generations.
Putting 4.5 billion pages of key works from Europe's libraries online would benefit researchers, as well as give disadvantaged nations access to global learning.
But Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker warned the Comedie Francaise meeting that such a massive project would only be possible if sufficient funding was made available.
Currently, 0.12% of the EU budget is channelled into culture, which he criticised as "mediocre" and "insignificant."
At the close of the meeting in France, culture ministers signed a declaration to make culture more of a priority.
Cultural dominance fear
Six EU members - France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain - have asked the EU to launch its own virtual library initiative, which was proposed by France's Jacques Chirac.
Nineteen national libraries have already signed a motion which urges action from the EU in response to Google's plans.
"We have to act," Mr Juncker, whose country is the holder of the EU presidency, told the meeting of culture ministers, artists and intellectuals who gathered to come up with a European charter for culture.
"That's why I say 'yes' to the initiative of the French president (Jacques Chirac) to launch a European digital library. I say 'yes' because Europe must not submit in the face of virulent attacks from others," he said.
In January, the head of the French national library, Jean-Noel Jeanneney, said that Google's plans could lead to a US-centric record of great literary and cultural heritage, neglecting diverse works in different languages.
Google's $200m (£110m) plans were announced in December. It aims to put 15 million volumes online from four top US libraries - Stanford, Michigan, Harvard and New York - and from the UK's Oxford University, by 2015.
Among the works held by the libraries are a 1687 first edition of Isaac Newton's The Principia, at Stanford, and Charles Darwin's 1871 work, The Descent of Man, which resides in Oxford's Bodleian library.
En verzet, natuurlijk. Resistance is futile, vrees ik.