>Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:30:02 -0500
>From: ICTD Newsmaster <ictdnews@undp.org>
>Subject: ICTD News for 03 November 2005
>To: ictdnews@undp.org
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>---- The Open Content Alliance
>The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a major new project to scan print
>books and index them for searching. It was launched on October 3 by
>an international consortium of profit and non-profit organizations.
>When the books are in the public domain or when OCA has obtained the
>copyright-holder's consent, then it will provide open access to the
>full-texts. The press is calling OCA a Yahoo initiative, perhaps to
>play up a rivalry with Google. But the Internet Archive conceived
>the OCA and will administer it. Yahoo will index the content for
>searching. Adobe and HP Labs will provide technology. Content will
>come from any and all institutions that can be persuaded to
>volunteer. At the time of launch, there were six: the European
>Archive, National Archives of the UK, O'Reilly Media, Prelinger
>Archives, the University of California, and the University of Toronto.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=8175&do=gpage
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