http://everybodyslibraries.com/2007/12/07/copyright-information-sharing-an-update/ Libraries for everyone, by everyone, shared with everyone, about everything Wed, 16 May 2012 13:53:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://everybodyslibraries.com/2007/12/07/copyright-information-sharing-an-update/#comment-1672 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:17:50 +0000 http://everybodyslibraries.com/2007/12/07/copyright-information-sharing-an-update/#comment-1672 What is a robust database?

]]> http://everybodyslibraries.com/2007/12/07/copyright-information-sharing-an-update/#comment-37 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:15:32 +0000 http://everybodyslibraries.com/2007/12/07/copyright-information-sharing-an-update/#comment-37 Distributed Proofreaders did the transcription of the printed volumes of the copyright renewals. They were type-written and did NOT produce very good OCR results. Quite a lot of human (volunteer) time went into getting accurate transcriptions from the scans. I’m extremely skeptical that any automated process will produce accurate results. So “scanning the pages” is only the beginning of the process and the tip of the ice berg.

]]> http://everybodyslibraries.com/2007/12/07/copyright-information-sharing-an-update/#comment-36 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:38:24 +0000 http://everybodyslibraries.com/2007/12/07/copyright-information-sharing-an-update/#comment-36 I would be very interested in hearing more about efforts to digitize pre-1978 copyright registrations in addition to the book renewals. The New York Public Library holds a pretty good set of the (U. S.) Catalog of Copyright Entries (a Federal Depository Library item?) that might serve as a foundation of such an undertaking. One prime issue seems to me to be scanning the pages in a manner to make importation into a robust database efficient.

]]> http://everybodyslibraries.com/2007/12/07/copyright-information-sharing-an-update/#comment-29 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:56:05 +0000 http://everybodyslibraries.com/2007/12/07/copyright-information-sharing-an-update/#comment-29 Thanks for providing this update John. The University of Texas at Austin Libraries, a Google Book Search Project partner, is working to develop processes to aid in the identification of works in the public domain among those Google is scanning for us, from our Benson Latin American Collection. We plan to post both process and product of our efforts on our blog, which is just about to go live (called Free the books). We are very interested at this point in information about where we can begin to collect documentation about copyright status. We’re going to be generating a lot of information that will bear not only on public domain status, but on orphan works status as well, and we don’t want it to go to waste. We want to share it as effectively and efficiently as possible. Maybe we need some kind of summit on this subject, real or virtual.

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