[d@DCC] Inovation in canada under the curent regime.

[Charles MacDonald]

Again passing on a quote form Brewster Kahle.  Seems that the U of 
Toronto has been working on using a robot system to make scans of book 
that can be viewed as either JPGs or with a java applet.

They are currently working on a large number of French books, which 
should be helpful to "candian Heritages" Goal of having more French 
content on the web.


> The Million Books Project will be posting 10's of thousands of books  
> later this month on the Archive and elsewhere.  These were scanned in  
> India by the Indian government.  Stay tuned.
> 
> This fall we kicked off a volume book scanning "in-library" project at  
> the University of Toronto.      
> http://www.archive.org/texts/collection.php?collection=toronto
> 
> The idea is to get the price per page down using domestic workers.     
> We now have it below 10 cents per page and targeting 3 1/3 cents, or  
> $10 for a 300 page book.
> 
> This is already much less than the commercial rates we have heard from  
> libraries of $0.85 to $1 per page.
> 
>   If you know of people wanting to do alot of high quality scanning,  
> please let us know!
> 

-- 
Charles MacDonald  Stittsville Ontario
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