Exactly the thoughts of the volunteers and staff at the Internet Archive: Thank you Grateful Dead and its communities. Through a tough week I believe that everyone learned alot about community in the age of the Internet.
We are all on some new ground here even though it still seems like the old tape trading.
We can keep learning and growning through experiments like this if we dont descend into realm of lawyers or screaming matches.
Please download or stream a show, post a review. They shows are pretty good!
-brewster
Digital Librarian, Founder
Internet Archive
At the University of Toronto the Internet Archive pays $12 Canadian / hour to the scanners, and $11-$12 American in the US. The exchange rates keep changing so judging Canadian pay by US translations is a bit confusing. With experience the Archive will adapt as well, but the Archive is interested in maintaining a reasonable wage while keeping the overall cost cheaper than most commercial offerings. The reason for that is to encourage the open nature that the Archive supports.
What would be the equivalent local rate for scanners in Europe?
The code is GPL open source. it is not posted on sourceforge, but look for the developer's post in his reply to this slashdot posting.
Lets work together to take it the next level.
-brewster
The press has concentrated on Microsoft's joining which is fantastic, but we also had 14 key libraries join which is also great news. http://www.opencontentalliance.org is a good site for this stuff.
Something I am jazzed about is a cool bookviewer at http://www.openlibrary.org/ showing the first books from University of California sponsored by Yahoo! and the "vision book" there tells the story of what we envision and some of the announcements.
onward!
-brewster
Digital Librarian
Internet Archive (administers the Open Content Alliance)
Slashdot Mirror
Open source projects may want to build on open content otherwise this type of problem could come up repeatedly.
Jared Benedict of the Libre Map Project and over 100 map "liberators" have started this collection:
http://www.archive.org/details/maps_usgs
a start-- lets build on it.
-brewster
Internet Archive
Exactly the thoughts of the volunteers and staff at the Internet Archive: Thank you Grateful Dead and its communities. Through a tough week I believe that everyone learned alot about community in the age of the Internet. We are all on some new ground here even though it still seems like the old tape trading. We can keep learning and growning through experiments like this if we dont descend into realm of lawyers or screaming matches. Please download or stream a show, post a review. They shows are pretty good! -brewster Digital Librarian, Founder Internet Archive
At the University of Toronto the Internet Archive pays $12 Canadian / hour to the scanners, and $11-$12 American in the US. The exchange rates keep changing so judging Canadian pay by US translations is a bit confusing. With experience the Archive will adapt as well, but the Archive is interested in maintaining a reasonable wage while keeping the overall cost cheaper than most commercial offerings. The reason for that is to encourage the open nature that the Archive supports.
What would be the equivalent local rate for scanners in Europe?
-brewster
Digital Librarian
The code is GPL open source. it is not posted on sourceforge, but look for the developer's post in his reply to this slashdot posting. Lets work together to take it the next level. -brewster
The press has concentrated on Microsoft's joining which is fantastic, but we also had 14 key libraries join which is also great news.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org is a good site for this stuff.
Something I am jazzed about is a cool bookviewer at http://www.openlibrary.org/ showing the first books from University of California sponsored by Yahoo! and the "vision book" there tells the story of what we envision and some of the announcements.
onward!
-brewster Digital Librarian Internet Archive (administers the Open Content Alliance)