ITR: Million Book Project Equipment Funding

创建一个通用的，免费阅读的数字图书馆，包含超过100万本扫描书籍，并通过光学字符识别来支持全文搜索，这是这个百万图书项目的目标。这样的资源通过使这个大型数字图书馆向世界各地的学者、学生和公民开放，进一步推动了知识的民主化。在线搜索的可用性使用户能够快速可靠地找到相关信息，从而提高学生在他们的研究工作的成功.这个24x7x365的资源还将为数据库创建、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）的进一步研究提供一个很好的测试平台。和信息挖掘。国家科学基金会的资源将以近20比1的速度扩大，因为印度和中国将提供劳动力来挖掘这些资源。材料.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归还。目前正在寻求私人赠款来支付运输费用。

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.