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L'Open Content Alliance (OCA), branche de l'Internet Archive, tente de se placer dans la course à la numérisation d'ouvrages, emmenée par Google et Microsoft. Dans cet article du New York Times paru aujourd'hui (Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web), l'auteur signale une série d'institutions qui entrent en résistance (comme par exemple la Boston Public Library et la Smithsonian Institution).

Extrait:

"Google pays to scan the books and does not directly profit from the resulting Web pages, although the books make its search engine more useful and more valuable. The libraries can have their books scanned again by another company or organization for dissemination more broadly.

It costs the Open Content Alliance as much as $30 to scan each book, a cost shared by the group’s members and benefactors, so there are obvious financial benefits to libraries of Google’s wide-ranging offer, started in 2004.

Many prominent libraries have accepted Google’s offer — including the New York Public Library and libraries at the University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford and Oxford. Google expects to scan 15 million books from those collections over the next decade.

But the resistance from some libraries, like the Boston Public Library and the Smithsonian Institution, suggests that many in the academic and nonprofit world are intent on pursuing a vision of the Web as a global repository of knowledge that is free of business interests or restrictions."

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Via Search Engine Land