LA CHATRE, France (Reuters) - Amid the flat, wide fields of central France, a team of re-trained secretaries and IT experts is packaging Europe's literary heritage for the digital era. Put less ...

Someone somewhere in the world is searching for the opening lines of Melville’s "Moby Dick," or maybe a phrase from Toni Morrison’s "Beloved," an anecdote from a Bart Starr biography, a speech by ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Book publishers cried foul – in the form of numerous legal challenges – nearly two decades ago when the Google Books project digitized and freely distributed more than 25 million works.

2006-11-24T19:59:55-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a6a/195115-m.jpgModerated by Marvin Kalb, the panelists debated all sides of the topic, “Whose Work Is It ...

PITTSBURGH—Millions of computer users collectively transcribe the equivalent of 160 books each day with better than 99 percent accuracy, despite the fact that few spend more than a few seconds on the ...

The latest deal adds the libraries of the University of California to the already vast collection books in other substantial libraries, including the prestigious universities of Harvard, Stanford and ...

SAN FRANCISCO--When it comes to digitizing books, two stories appear to be unfolding: One is about open source, and the other, Google. Or so it seemed at a party held by the Internet Archive on ...

Alison Bassett / Archives & Research Center of the Trustees of Reservations 6 of 6 — Elizabeth Freeman is buried in the Sedgwick family plot in the Stockbridge, Mass., cemetery. Theodore Sedgwick was ...

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