print.google.com

[Leanne Riding]

I thought about reprinting the books, too - and went so far as to make a mockup
of one book. That was fairly easy, since I've worked a few years in the publishing
industry. I also did quite a bit of digitization too, for my chinook word
lookup tool. I think I digitized about 5-6 books, although I only found time
to put a few of those into my search tool. Digitizing was much more time consuming
than making the mockup. That was because the character recognition software
I was using had a very hard time with the letters, which were often incompletely
printed, and could not guess the unfamiliar chinook jargon words. Granted,
  I was trying to get 100% accurate plain text, which might not be necessary
in a scanned page image with a plain text index. However the degree of inaccuracy
was so high that the plain text indexes of each book would probably have to
be proofread at least a little.

The current trend seems to be a public expectation to be able to locate any
information on the web using Google. It now seems, if Google can't find you,
  you do not exist! Google seems pretty solid. I don't think it will go anywhere
or change its practices soon, although the service will someday change as
the company's needs change. It is not really a new idea to create a comprehensive
access point to digitized books - other organization have tried this. Even
for Google the project will be a huge undertaking. There is still a lot of
room for other digitization projects. But for us, it is all good, isn't it!

On Wednesday, January 26, 2005, at 10:16 , David Robertson wrote:

> Naika tlus siks,
>
> The list has been quiet.  I've gotten plenty of attempted postings from
> spammers, though!
>
> People who wish they could find more information about Chinook Jargon might
> enjoy taking a look at http://print.google.com.  There you can read about
> Google's enormous project of digitizing tens of thousands of books
> (including the entire U. of Michigan library in Ann Arbor).  Then there
> should be much more information on the internet about a wide range of
> scholarly subjects.
>
> Publishers of books on Chinook Jargon can participate by contacting Google
> and arranging for the contents of their books to be incorporated in the
> search engine.
>
> I've mulled over the idea of reprinting all the old books on Chinook, since
> their copyrights expired long ago--but I'd be at least as excited about a
> project to digitize all of those sources and make their complete contents
> available via a web search.
>
> Note that Google also has pilot projects operating to incorporate
> information from academic sources (Google Scholar) and from the closed-
> caption subtitles of TV shows and movies (Google Video).  Interesting ideas.
>
> --Dave R.
>
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Leanne Sumiko Riding
Address: 7374 Main St., Vancouver, BC, V5X3J5
Email: leanne at timetemple.com
Web: http://timetemple.com
Phone: 604.875.0488

Have a project? I welcome your inquiries!

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