Category Archives: Digital library

Microsoft Ends Book and Article Scanning

Posted on 2008-05-24 by Tom Elliott

Miguel Helf, writing in the New York Times, reports: Microsoft said Friday that it was ending a project to scan millions of books and scholarly articles and make them available on the Web … Microsoft’s decision also leaves the Internet … Continue reading →

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Whither scholarly digitization efforts?

Posted on 2008-04-03 by Tom Elliott

One of the authors at Thoughts on Antiquity has posted a provocative reflection on a long-standing effort to digitize an out-of-copyright translation of Cyril of Alexandria’s Commentary on Luke. In light of technological change, the big book-scanning projects and the … Continue reading →

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