Million Book Project (MBP) Gloriana St. Clair Johns Hopkins University February 5, 2003

Thesis Project has great potential to make good information available to more scholars. The future of libraries is digital.

Main Points Why? Genesis: Leaders, Partners Realities: Collections and logistics Dreams: Comments about the vision

Why? “Libraries are very unevenly distributed across the world and within countries. Even in the U.S. there are enormous differences. Now technology makes possible a universal world library in which every person has access to anything written.”

“In the end, this will be Vannevar Bush’s Memex.” - Michael Lesk, Internet Archive Bush, “As We May Think” Atlantic Monthly (July 1945) Why?

Genesis

Leaders Co-Directors: Raj Reddy and Gloriana St. Clair Michael Shamos: intellectual property; e-commerce Jaime Carbonell: machine translation; information mining; auto-summarization

Leaders Gabrielle Michalek: pioneered five digitization projects Erika Linke: collections; intellectual property Denise Troll Covey: digital libraries; user studies

Partners National Science Foundation 2001 $665, $1,000, $1,000, $1,000,000 for equipment and travel

Partners Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Indiana University National Agriculture Library OCLC Penn State University Stanford University University of California, Berkeley University of Washington

Partners China: Beijing University Chinese Academy of Science Fudan University Ministry of Education of China Nanjing University State Planning Commission of China Tsinghua University Zhejiang University India: Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering Goa University Indian Institute of Science Indian Institute of Information Technology–Allahabad International Institute of Information Technology– Hyderabad Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy University of Pune

At an internet café in Hyderabad …

Collections BCL– 60,000 “best” for college libraries U. S. government documents British Parliamentary Papers Partners’ unique cultural treasures University press negotiations Copyright clearance projects for targeted subject areas

Constraints The collection must be composed of many sub-collections. Librarians will consulted to ensure solid selection criteria. Copyright is a serious barrier to an effective effort.

Research Initiatives Machine translation Massive distributed database Storage formats Use of digital libraries Distribution and sustainability Security Search engines Image processing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Language processing Copyright laws

Distribution and Sustainability Library of Congress, Digital Preservation OCLC RLG STOR family University presses Commercial vendors

Newest Developments Over 1 million pages scanned at one center in India Famous Hyderabad library to be scanned Million Book Project FAQ

Thank You and Q & A Gloriana St. Clair Carnegie Mellon University