Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
A $1 million grant to the not-for-profit Internet Archive will allow
it to extend its book-scanning project as an open source alternative to
the efforts of Google and Microsoft.
The Internet Archive is a driving force behind the Open Content Alliance, a consortium of groups conceived with Yahoo! in 2005 in response to Google's book scanning project. The Alliance is dedicated to keeping public domain works in the public domain on-line. The Internet Archive also maintains the WayBack Machine, an archive of web pages.
The $US1 million grant, from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will be used to expand the Internet Archive's Open-Access Text Archive - which already contains 100,000 books. Future projects include scanning the complete personal library of former US President and founding father John Adams as well texts from New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles' Getty Research Institute and the University of California Berkeley.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation.
The announcement comes only weeks after Microsoft released Live Search Books to beta. Live Search Books is initially restricted to only include non-copyright books scanned from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto. Copyrighted books will be added to the collection later, but only those submitted to Microsoft by publishers or authors.
Microsoft's policy of only scanning copyrighted books with the publisher or author's consent contrasts with Google's approach of scanning all the books from participating libraries, including the libraries of Stanford, Michigan and Harvard Universities and of the New York Public Library. Only public domain books are available for full text views, but several publishers and authors have taken legal action along with the US Authors Guild.
David Bass
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