http://www.lawfont.com/2005/10/07/yahoo-backs-open-content-alliance/ an analysis of law, technology, economics, and policy Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:06:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.lawfont.com/2005/10/07/yahoo-backs-open-content-alliance/comment-page-1/#comment-50 LawFont » Book digitisation projects: Google Print and all that Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:53:56 +0000 http://www.lawfont.com/?p=38#comment-50 [...] The Open Content Alliance [http://www.opencontentalliance.org] (“OCA”) is a Yahoo-backed book digitization project [http://www.lawfont.com/2005/10/07/yahoo-backs-open-content-alliance/], which includes various contributors [http://www.opencontentalliance.org/contributors.html], including: Adobe Systems Inc. [www.adobe.com], Hewlett-Packard Co. [www.hp.com/], the Internet Archive [www.archive.org], O’Reilly Media Inc. [http://www.oreilly.com/], the University of California [http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/], Columbia University [www.Columbia.edu], Rice University [www.rice.edu], the University of Toronto [www.utoronto.ca], and the National Archives of Britain [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/]. (Interestingly, while Harvard University is a Google Print Library Project partner, certain of its collections are contributors to the OCA [http://www.opencontentalliance.org/contributors.html]. The OCA was inspired by Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, which itself is an initiative to build a database of web pages. Access to the Alliance’s database is not due until sometime during 2006. [...] [...] The Open Content Alliance [http://www.opencontentalliance.org] (“OCA”) is a Yahoo-backed book digitization project [http://www.lawfont.com/2005/10/07/yahoo-backs-open-content-alliance/], which includes various contributors [http://www.opencontentalliance.org/contributors.html], including: Adobe Systems Inc. [www.adobe.com], Hewlett-Packard Co. [www.hp.com/], the Internet Archive [www.archive.org], O’Reilly Media Inc. [http://www.oreilly.com/], the University of California [http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/], Columbia University [www.Columbia.edu], Rice University [www.rice.edu], the University of Toronto [www.utoronto.ca], and the National Archives of Britain [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/]. (Interestingly, while Harvard University is a Google Print Library Project partner, certain of its collections are contributors to the OCA [http://www.opencontentalliance.org/contributors.html]. The OCA was inspired by Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, which itself is an initiative to build a database of web pages. Access to the Alliance’s database is not due until sometime during 2006. [...]

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