Million Book Project Partners Meeting: Grant for a Research and Coordination Meeting

百万图书项目合作伙伴会议：资助研究和协调会议

• 批准号: 0741787
• 负责人: Gloriana St. Clair
• 金额: --
• 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: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0741787&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Million; Book; Project; Partners; Meeting

This proposal requests funds for a "Million Book Project" partners research and coordination meeting to be held on November 2-4, 2007, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Annual project partners'meetings have been held since 2002 in locations at the primary participating nations: China in 2002, India in 2003, the United States in 2004, China in 2005, and Egypt in 2006. The Million Book Project was begun in 2000, aiming to be the most ambitious mass digitization project ever undertaken. The initial goal was to digitize and provide free-to-read access to one million books by 2007. A $3M ITR grant was made by the NSF and highly leveraged by international partners. To date the Project has scanned over 1.4 million books in China, India and Egypt, in the process stimulating new research in areas associated with large-scale, multi-lingual database storage, retrieval and presentation of results. This meeting will continue valuable ongoing processes of communication, planning, interaction and coordination necessary to continue progress. Key topics to be explored include machine translation and summarization, intellectual property and rights management issues, improving and providing centralized access to the metadata, usability issues, growing the collection, diversity, dissemination, education and others.

该提案要求为2007年11月2日至4日在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡的卡耐基梅隆大学举行的“百万图书计划”合作伙伴研究和协调会议提供资金。自2002年以来，每年的项目合作伙伴会议都在主要参与国的地点举行：2002年是中国，2003年是印度，2004年是美国，2005年是中国，2006年是埃及。“百万图书计划”始于2000年，旨在成为有史以来最雄心勃勃的大规模数字化项目。最初的目标是到2007年实现100万本书的数字化和免费阅读。国家科学基金会提供了300万美元的ITR赠款，并得到了国际合作伙伴的大力支持。迄今为止，该项目已在中国、印度和埃及扫描了140多万本书，在这一过程中促进了与大规模、多语言数据库存储、检索和结果展示相关领域的新研究。这次会议将继续进行为继续取得进展所必需的宝贵的沟通、规划、互动和协调进程。要探讨的关键主题包括机器翻译和摘要、知识产权和权利管理问题、改进和提供对元数据的集中访问、可用性问题、增加收集、多样性、传播、教育等。