[open-humanities] Google and digital humanities

[Jonathan Gray]

Last one for today -- I promise!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html

Would be great if they committed to placing at least the plain text
(if not the actual scans) of public domain works into the public
domain for all to reuse without restriction. This could also
incentivise people to contribute to improving the quality of OCR
generated texts of public domain books.

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
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