ITR/IM: The Million Book Project

ITR/IM：百万图书项目

• 批准号: 0113878
• 负责人: Raj Reddy
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-15 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0113878&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; IM; Million; Book; Project

The Million Book project is a multinational initiative to create a digital online archive of at least amillion books and manuscripts freely available to anyone at any time. It will enhance research,learning and teaching by making a critical mass of scholarly information freely available toread online. It will support the needs of citizens for practical information and recreational readingas well as supporting scholarship and education. India, and possibly China, will supply the manpowerfor scanning centers while the U. S. provides equipment and software. This pilot project suppliesthe startup money for the first few scanning centers.

百万图书项目是一项跨国倡议，旨在创建一个至少包含数百万本书和手稿的数字在线档案，任何人都可以随时免费获得。它将通过在网上免费提供大量学术信息来加强研究、学习和教学。它将支持公民对实用信息和娱乐阅读的需求，以及支持奖学金和教育。印度，可能还有中国，将为扫描中心提供人力，而美国则提供设备和软件。这个试点项目为最初的几个扫描中心提供了启动资金。