Archive for the ‘TOC’ Category

Librarians & Publishers Twitter Together

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Two recent articles, one by a librarian and one by a publisher, talk of the growing realization on the part of both parties that they increasingly have common interests, as both learn how to deal with the the implications of electronic publishing -- Librarian Barbara Fister's Library Journal cover story ...

Jon Orwant on Google Book Search at TOC – Slides with data

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

The slides and data from Jon Orwant's presentation on Google Book Search at TOC, that were not available when I wrote previously, have now been put up on the O'Reilly site. [these have been removed, see comment below] This is made up of 59 PDF slides, covering a range of ...

Jon Orwant on Google Book Search at TOC

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Jon Orwant, from Google Book Search, made a presentation at the O'Reilly Tools Of Change (TOC) for Publishing Conference in New York last week, which I did not attend. Apparently Orwant presented some numeric data about the use of Google Books, but the data has yet to be spread to ...

Google Book Search Mobile & OCR

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

There's been a lot of buzz about the announcement last week of mobile access to Google Book Search public-domain books. I've been looking hard for nitty-gritty details of how it works, though, and haven't found much. The best is in comments by bowerbird on an announcement article on toc.oreilly.com. It's ...