[OKCon-Programme] Speaker from Google?

[Wouter Tebbens]

I agree with Chris and David's comments re. Google. Though you could 
invite a Google Books person and we might have an interesting discussion 
with the suggested mr. Darnton.

my 2cts,

Wouter

On 03/24/2011 08:29 PM, David Bollier wrote:
>
> I agree with Chris. Why not invite someone like Harvard University
> librarian Robert Darnton, who is proposing a digital public library as
> an alternative to the Google books project, or Brewster Kahle of the
> Internet Archive, who has led similar efforts among universities to band
> together and share digitized books rather than ceding this task to Google?
>
> Google is too important to ignore, but its actual commitment to
> free/open should be closely scrutinized especially if better
> alternatives exist.
>
> David Bollier
>
>
> On 3/24/11 3:18 PM, Chris Taggart wrote:
>>
>> I have a bit of a prob with some of Google's stuff and its position on
>> open data generally (i don't think it cares about it except insofar it
>> helps its business goals/model.
>>
>> That said I think Google Refine is excellent and being a tool rather
>> than a data store doesn't have the problems mentioned above.
>>
>> Just my 2c worth.
>>
>> Chris
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>> On 24 Mar 2011 17:42, "Daniel Dietrich" <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org
>> <mailto:daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>> wrote:
>> > Dear all
>> >
>> > we are looking into the possibility to invite some one from Google
>> to OKCon
>> >
>> > Out of my head there are several Google Projects with relevance to
>> OKCon 2011 topics, such as:
>> >
>> > - Google Books http://books.google.com/
>> > - Google UNESCO World Heritage
>> http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/unesco/
>> > - Google Art http://www.googleartproject.com/
>> > - Google data liberation front http://www.dataliberation.org/
>> >
>> > - Google public data explorer http://www.google.com/publicdata/home
>> > - Google open data toolkit http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/
>> > - Google refine http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
>> >
>> > But this is of corse very vague.
>> >
>> > If you have suggestions or could even point me to people involved in
>> these projects this would be incredibly useful! Thanks
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Daniel
>> >
>> >
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