print.google.com

[David Robertson]

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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