11-23-2005, 12:09 PM
Quote:Stretching its promise to "Do no evil" to near breaking point Google is backing a plan from the Library of Congress to digitise and store the world's culture.
..The "World Digital Library" aims to do the same thing for sundry other nations - the only trouble is that at the moment, like baseball's "World Series", it is an all-American shop..
full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/22/...d_library/
Quote:Google Inc. has agreed to be the first donor, with $3 million, in a public-private partnership to fund this initiative. The Library of Congress will seek other philanthropic contributors to assist in this important effort to harness technology to bring scattered primary materials of the varied cultures into consolidated Web sites for each culture. Such a project would be created primarily with and by the people of the respective regions. But because the Internet is by definition international, and because cultural materials have a special human appeal that transcends politics, there is enormous potential for increasing transcultural understanding.
full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...01234.html
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