Million Book Project Partners Meeting: Supplemental Grant

该提案要求为2009年11月6-9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。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。今天，百万图书项目、谷歌图书搜索项目和其他项目继续为网络带来新的材料。据估计，通过这些不同的项目，现在大约有1000万本书可以在网上找到。以前由于位置和访问问题而限制使用的大量且数量不断增加的实体文本内容，现在全世界都可以通过互联网获得。到目前为止，该项目已经扫描了中国、印度和埃及的150多万本书。在这个过程中，它不断增加知识，鼓励在大规模、多语言数据库存储、检索和结果显示领域进行新的研究。本次会议将继续并更新确保国际合作所必需的沟通、规划、互动和协调进程，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、改进和提供对元数据的集中访问、可用性问题、扩大收集、多样性、传播、教育和其他。

This proposal requests funds for a "Million Book Project" partners research and coordination meeting to be held on November 6-9, 2009, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.. 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. Today the Million Book Project, the Google Book Search Project and others continue to bring new materials to the web. It is estimated that about 10 million books are now available on the web through these different projects. Vast and increasing amounts of physical textual content previously constrained in use due to location and access issues is now available to all via the internet worldwide. To date the Project has scanned over 1.5 million books in China, India and Egypt. In the process it continues add knowledge, stimulate new research in areas of large-scale, multi-lingual database storage, retrieval and presentation of results. This meeting will continue and renew the those processes of communication, planning, interaction and coordination necessary to ensure international collaborationKey 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.