Quite a few volumes of "Archives historiques du Poitou" appear on the
list of things added to the Gallica website in December. These
volumes include a number of medieval cartularies from Poitou.
On a similar subject, does anybody know if any of the other recently
announced digitization projects (e.g., Google, Family History Library)
are going to have "things added this month" lists on the web?
Stewart Baldwin
Archives historiques du Poitou
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Peter Stewart
Re: Archives historiques du Poitou
"Stewart Baldwin" <sbaldw@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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At the rate of progress that the Google project will have to keep up, such
monthly lists would be very lengthy & unwieldy - using the search engline
will be efficient for most purposes.
I wonder if Gallica is entirely random in choice of material for digitising.
If not, the method (at least with medieval texts & scholarship) is
mysterious to say the least. Nevertheless, tt's very good to have more
cartularies online, especially those of St-Cyprien abbey and the bishopric
of Poitiers.
Peter Stewart
news:hedet0h8s9jb61d6mue64hu0m78gc9ppe6@4ax.com...
Quite a few volumes of "Archives historiques du Poitou" appear on the
list of things added to the Gallica website in December. These
volumes include a number of medieval cartularies from Poitou.
On a similar subject, does anybody know if any of the other recently
announced digitization projects (e.g., Google, Family History Library)
are going to have "things added this month" lists on the web?
At the rate of progress that the Google project will have to keep up, such
monthly lists would be very lengthy & unwieldy - using the search engline
will be efficient for most purposes.
I wonder if Gallica is entirely random in choice of material for digitising.
If not, the method (at least with medieval texts & scholarship) is
mysterious to say the least. Nevertheless, tt's very good to have more
cartularies online, especially those of St-Cyprien abbey and the bishopric
of Poitiers.
Peter Stewart
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Chris Phillips
Google plans (was: Archives historiques du Poitou)
Stewart Baldwin wrote:
I don't think Google's plans have really been firmly decided yet, but as
best I can tell they aren't very helpful to the serious researcher. It seems
it won't be possible to confine a Google search to printed material alone,
and the plan seems to be for results from books to be mixed together with
web results in some way. (The examples shown on Google's web pages show the
book results in a separate panel at the top, but obviously that won't be
feasible in the longer term, if they are really goingto scan tens of
millions of volumes. It's bit difficult to judge, as I've yet to see a
result from a book displayed in Google search results.)
I hope Google will eventually make some sort of listing of scanned books
available, but I haven't seen any hint of it yet. As Peter Stewart says, a
list of "New this month" would be too long to be practicable (running into
tens of thousands?), but it would be really nice to have a search facility
tha included "accession date" as a field that could be specified (as the
"Access to Archives" project n the UK has done).
I've read that the OCLC is including in its WorldCat database information
about what is being digitised by libraries in general, but I don't have
access to that, and I don't know whether the Google project will be
included. I hope the participating libraries will make sensible decisions
about things like this, regardless of what Google may do.
Obviously there are some commercial pressures at work, and I don't really
understand the thinking behind some of the restrictions (e.g. printing
material from books is apparently disabled). I get the impression Google
hasn't properly worked out exactly how it will make money out of this
project, so I hope there's scope for things to change.
Chris Phillips
On a similar subject, does anybody know if any of the other recently
announced digitization projects (e.g., Google, Family History Library)
are going to have "things added this month" lists on the web?
I don't think Google's plans have really been firmly decided yet, but as
best I can tell they aren't very helpful to the serious researcher. It seems
it won't be possible to confine a Google search to printed material alone,
and the plan seems to be for results from books to be mixed together with
web results in some way. (The examples shown on Google's web pages show the
book results in a separate panel at the top, but obviously that won't be
feasible in the longer term, if they are really goingto scan tens of
millions of volumes. It's bit difficult to judge, as I've yet to see a
result from a book displayed in Google search results.)
I hope Google will eventually make some sort of listing of scanned books
available, but I haven't seen any hint of it yet. As Peter Stewart says, a
list of "New this month" would be too long to be practicable (running into
tens of thousands?), but it would be really nice to have a search facility
tha included "accession date" as a field that could be specified (as the
"Access to Archives" project n the UK has done).
I've read that the OCLC is including in its WorldCat database information
about what is being digitised by libraries in general, but I don't have
access to that, and I don't know whether the Google project will be
included. I hope the participating libraries will make sensible decisions
about things like this, regardless of what Google may do.
Obviously there are some commercial pressures at work, and I don't really
understand the thinking behind some of the restrictions (e.g. printing
material from books is apparently disabled). I get the impression Google
hasn't properly worked out exactly how it will make money out of this
project, so I hope there's scope for things to change.
Chris Phillips
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David Hepworth
Re: Google plans (was: Archives historiques du Poitou)
The Bodleian will start its programme with Google soon - for more
details go to http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk and then click Oxford-Google
digitisation agreement
details go to http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk and then click Oxford-Google
digitisation agreement