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Universal Access
to
All Knowledge
…is within our grasp
Texts
Book picture
Online book
Look inside the book
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Bookmobile picture
Eric Eldred Bookmobile
2 in India
Egypt: 1 in Sept
Youssef books
Egypt
Uganda: 1 in Oct
Ondemandbooks
Ondemandbooks2
Ondemandbooks3
olpc
Olpc ebook brewster
IndianScanner
EgyptScanner
TorontoScanner
ScribeScanner
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Scribe Movie
Toronto
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Open Books Scanning
• 10 cents / page (~ $30/book)
• 12,000 books per month
Texts
150,000 books in 8 collections
• Children’s Books
• English Literature
• Religious Studies
• Reformation and Renaissance Studies
• Philosophy
• Historical Medical Texts
• Arabic Texts
Audio
Orchestra
Field band
Rock band
Open Audio
• ~$10 per disk
• ~ $10 per hour
Audio
100,000 items in over 100 collections
• Live Music Archive (2,300 bands & 40,000 performances)
• Netlabels (600 labels)
• Mother Jones Radio
• LibriVox Audio Books
• Berkeley Groks Science Radio
• Afropop Worldwide
• Old Time Radio
• Tse Chen Ling Buddhist Lectures
• 78 RPM Records
• Free Speech Radio News
• Presidential Recordings
Moving Images
Movie posters
Prelinger page
movies
Tv archive page
Archiving Moving Images
• $15 per video hour to digitize
• 50,000 videos on the Archive now
• 1 million hours of TV that are not online yet
• Hundreds new each day
Moving Images
55,000 items in 100 collections
• Democracy Now
• SIGGRAPH Computer Animation
• Film Chest Vintage Cartoons
• Prelinger Archives
• Drive-In Movie Ads
• Feature Films
• UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos
• Universal Newsreels
• Mosaic Middle East News
• Kino French Films
Software something
1996 Yahoo
Pets.com
WayBackMachine
WayBackMachineResults
Preservation and Access
AlexandriaComputers
PetaBox
Petaboxrow
Europarchive
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amsterdam
Recall
Open Content Aliance
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Cultural Diversity as a
Natural Resource
Call to Actively Support 1000
Living Languages
Enable:
commerce
learning
expression
in 1000 languages
Realtime Speech Translator
ala Star Trek
or Babelfish in Hitchhikers Guide
Universal OCR
• Pair images of words + Unicode answers
• Millions of them
• Can we deduce the right unicode for an new
image of a word?
• Language independent OCR via collective
intelligence
reCaptcha
Machines + Network + People
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Universal Translator
• Given example translations
• By the millions
• Can we deduce the right translation from a
new text?
One Web Page Per Book
• Can the success of wikipedia be repeated?
• Can we build structure + wiki without
losing both?
• Can we make a computer language that
could be group edited?
Open Web Search
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R&D in Web Search
Factoid extraction
Mixed language
mixed media (scans + web, video lectures)
Internet Archive offering infrastructure
• 2008 elections: all political speech
Universal Access
to All Knowledge
…can be one of our greatest
achievements
Free to the
People
-Carnegie
Library,
Pittsburgh
Gift