digitizationblog News on digitization in libraries and allied institutions

The dispute over Google's ability to scan copyrighted books that started in 2005 is over. Google and bodies representing publishers have come to an agreement. Details about the specific outcomes of the settlement are also available.

The "production" version of the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) specification is now available. See the press release for more information.

This article by Kalev Leetaru (First Monday, Volume 13 Number 10 - 6 October 2008) compares these two flagship mass digitization efforts. From the abstract:

Will Sexton, Metadata Analyst / Programmer at Duke University Libraries has posted an interesting item on his blog that identifies some "Digitization and Description use cases". People evaluating or developing tools for digitization and digital assets managment will find Will's list very useful.

Ocean State Librarian is providing this video of Brewster Kahle's talk at the EG2007 Conference, in which Kahle describes the Internet Archive's activities to a non-librarian (but very tech savy) audience. This video is also available at the Internet Archive.