Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.
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An excerpt from the prospectus reads: "Knowledge is created through conversation, libraries are in the
knowledge business, therefore libraries are in the conversation
business. This seemingly simple concept lies at the heart of the
technology brief "Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation"
developed by ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and
the Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS)...
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David Weinberger and Cory Doctorow "discuss the advantages and pitfalls of explicit and implicit metadata, tags, and the rules governing the use and re-use of content in commerce and nature."
Googlem the internet company is getting in the energy business. It announced yesterday that it intended to develop and help stimulate the creation of renewable energy technologies that are cheaper than coal-generated power
Since July, a data-hungry user has downloaded from Factiva over 5 million articles, an amount so excessive that it jeopardized the University’s contract with the popular online research service. Yesterday, library administrators at Harvard Business School (HBS) blocked the conspicuous Harvard-network IP address from accessing Factiva and notified the suspected offender of the infringements.
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