ITR: Million Book Project Equipment Funding

ITR：百万图书项目设备资助

• 批准号: 0204865
• 负责人: Gloriana St. Clair
• 金额: $ 300万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0204865&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; Million; Book; Project; Equipment

Creating a universal, free to read, digital library containing over one million scanned bookswith optical character recognition to support full text searching is the goal of this million bookproject. Such a resource furthers the democratization of knowledge by making this large digitallibrary available to scholars, students, and citizens around the world. The availability of onlinesearch allows users to locate relevant information quickly and reliably thus enhancing studentsuccess in their research endeavors. This 24x7x365 resource would also provide an excellenttest bed for further research in database creation, OCR technique, machine metadata creation,and textual language processing research such as machine translation, summarization, intelligentindexing, and information mining.National ScienceFoundation resources would be amplified at a rate of almost twenty to one because the countriesof India and China will be providing the labor to digitize these materials. In addition, members ofthe U.S. Digital Library Federation would ship materials to be scanned and returned. Privategrant funding is being sought to cover shipping expenses.

这个百万图书项目的目标是创建一个通用的、免费阅读的数字图书馆，其中包含超过100万册扫描图书，并具有光学字符识别功能，以支持全文搜索。这样的资源通过向世界各地的学者、学生和公民提供这个大型数字图书馆，进一步促进了知识的民主化。在线研究的可用性允许用户快速可靠地定位相关信息，从而提高学生在研究工作中的成功。这个24x7x365的资源还将为进一步研究数据库创建、OCR技术、机器元数据创建和文本语言处理研究（如机器翻译、摘要、智能索引和信息挖掘）提供一个很好的测试平台。由于印度和中国将提供劳动力来将这些材料数字化，美国国家科学基金会的资源将以将近20比1的比率扩大。此外，美国数字图书馆联合会的成员将运送材料进行扫描和返回。目前正在寻求私人拨款来支付运输费用。