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2006 Digital
Library Trends
By Lance
Winslow
In 2005 we saw a huge push for
digital libraries and noticed Google and Microsoft both scanning
books and putting them into digital format for the world to see. We
saw many writers get aggressive and threaten lawsuits for copyright
infringement. We watched the big companies explain to the world that
they were first going to do all the books which were out of print
and produce them for all the world to see. In 2005 we also saw a
continuation of a trend to make white papers, research reports and
University manuscripts, dissertations and documentation online for
all. These systems used hybrid search features which could cross
reference photos, videos, sketches, paper, reports a number of
different ways using the latest and greatest artificial intelligence
searching software. Many Universities are now teaming up together to
make this a reality and partnering with major search engines to see
that all of it is readily available to the world.
In 2006 we will see a uniting of all
the worlds knowledge and works from as far back as the books which
were in the Alexandria Library all online and at your finger tips.
Imagine the amount of knowledge available to the world without the
barriers of time, location or language. Able to read information,
see videos and pictures and learn anything you want to learn
literally at your finger tips; like an add on memory to the human
race. Of course this project will take years, but the first half
million books will be completely online and ready to go in 2006 and
this trend will continue and accelerate in the coming years. Think
on this.
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