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

该提案要求为将于2007年11月2-4日在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡的卡内基梅隆大学举行的“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，年度项目合作伙伴会议一直在主要参与国的地点举行：2002年的中国会议、2003年的印度会议、2004年的美国会议、2005年的中国会议和2006年的埃及会议。百万图书计划于2000年启动，旨在成为有史以来最雄心勃勃的大规模数字化项目。最初的目标是在2007年前实现100万册图书的数字化和免费阅读。300万美元的ITR赠款由NSF提供，国际合作伙伴高度利用。到目前为止，该项目已经扫描了中国、印度和埃及的140多万本图书，在此过程中，推动了与大规模、多语言数据库存储、检索和结果展示相关领域的新研究。本次会议将继续进行宝贵的持续沟通、规划、互动和协调进程，这是继续取得进展所必需的。将探讨的主要议题包括机器翻译和摘要、知识产权和权利管理问题、改进和提供集中获取元数据的途径、可用性问题、增加收集、多样性、传播、教育和其他问题。

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.