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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
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  • Subject: [internetworkers] Friday 11/16: Don Sizemore on the Open Content Alliance meeting
  • Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:22:47 -0500 (EST)

Reply-To: Center for the Digital Libraries <ctrdiglib AT listserv.unc.edu>

Please join us Friday 11/16 for the next in our ongoing series of CRADLE
talks.

Speaker: Don Sizemore
Date: Monday Nov 116
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: Manning Hall, room 208

Open Content Alliance: 2007 Meeting Report

"What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on
sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply
every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy."[1]

In 2005 a small group met at the Internet Archive offices to establish
The Open Content Alliance (OCA), a group of cultural, technology,
nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will
help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and
multimedia content.[2]

Kirill Fesenko, Richard Szary, Simon Spero, and Donald Sizemore
represented UNC at this year's meeting. Discussion topics included
updates on the OCA's Scan on Demand, Print on Demand, and Open Library
initiatives, over recurring themes of Open Standards and Open Access.

The OCA was recently in the New York Times for adhering to its open
principles: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html

[1] The Open Library: http://www.openlibrary.org/
[2] The Open Content Alliance: http://www.opencontentalliance.org/
[3] The Open Library CardCataWiki: http://demo.openlibrary.org/



  • [internetworkers] Friday 11/16: Don Sizemore on the Open Content Alliance meeting, Paul Jones, 11/15/2007

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