Slide 1: Million Book Project Today Gloriana St. Clair October 21, 2003 OCLC
Slide 2: Thesis • The future of libraries is digital. • Development and growth of an international library project • Opportunities and challenges in collaboration, content, and sustainability
Slide 3: Main Points • Why? • Genesis: Leaders, Partners • Realities: Collections and logistics • Dreams: Comments about the vision
Slide 4: Why? “Libraries are very unevenly distributed across the world and within countries. Even in the U.S. there are enormous differences. Now technology makes possible a universal world library in which every person has access to anything written.”
Slide 5: Why? “In the end, this will be Vannevar Bush’s Memex.” - Michael Lesk, Internet Archive Bush, “As We May Think” Atlantic Monthly (July 1945) http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/ flashbks/computer/bushf.htm
Slide 6: Genesis
Slide 7: Leaders • Co-Directors: Raj Reddy and Gloriana St. Clair • Michael Shamos – intellectual property; e-commerce • Jaime Carbonell – machine translation; information mining; auto-summarization
Slide 8: Leaders • Gabrielle Michalek – pioneered 5 digitization projects • Erika Linke – collections; intellectual property • Denise Troll Covey – digital libraries; user studies
Slide 9: Partners • National Science Foundation 2001 2002 2003 2004 $665,600 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 for equipment and travel
Slide 10: Partners • Internet Archive
Slide 11: Partners • • • • • • • • Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Indiana University National Agriculture Library OCLC Penn State University University of California, Berkeley University of Washington
Slide 12: Partners China: Beijing University • Chinese Academy of Science • Fudan University • Ministry of Education of China • Nanjing University • State Planning Commission of China • Tsinghua University • Zhejiang University India: Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering • Goa University • Indian Institute of Science • Indian Institute of Information Technology–Allahabad • International Institute of Information Technology– Hyderabad • Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation • Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams • Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy • University of Pune
Slide 13: At an Internet café in Hyderabad
Slide 14: Collections • • • • • BCL - 60,000 “best books” U.S. government documents Partners’ unique cultural treasures University press negotiations Copyright clearance projects for targeted subject areas
Slide 15: New Collection Vision • Half of the collection might be academic press books in copyright but out-of-print
Slide 16: Copyright Permission Research Success Rates • Feasibility Study (1999) - 22% • Academic & scholarly presses (to date) - 40% • Posner Project (to date) - 60%
Slide 17: Possible U Press Partners • National Academy Press • MIT Press • Harvard University Press list of BCL books • Need electronic version of 1989 BCL the
Slide 18: Constraints • The collection must be composed of many sub-collections. • Librarians will be consulted to ensure solid selection criteria. • Copyright is a serious barrier to an effective effort.
Slide 19: Research Initiatives • Machine translation • Massive distributed database • Storage formats • Use of digital libraries • Distribution and sustainability • • • • Security Search engines Image processing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) • Language processing • Copyright laws
Slide 20: Distribution and Sustainability • OCLC?
Slide 21: Latest Developments • China received funding • Over 30,000 books available @ http://www.dli.gov.in/home.htm use Internet Explorer! • Million Book Project FAQ @ http://www.library.cmu.edu / Libraries/MBP_FAQ.html
Slide 22: Thank you & Q&A Gloriana St. Clair Dean of University Libraries Carnegie Mellon University gstclair@andrew.cmu.edu 412-268-2447