Google Books Project A Lecture by Dr. Nirmal Kumar Swain

Dr. Nirmal Kumar Swain Assistant Professor Banasthali UniversityRajasthan – 304022

nkswainlisfaculty@gmail.com

Google Books Project

A Lecture at Refresher Course , DAVV, Indore

17-18, Feb, 2012

Google Confidential and Proprietary

Overview

• Why and how Google scans books

• Challenges

• The Future

Why and How Google Scans Books

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Google’s mission

Online contentBillions of web pages

Offline contentBillions of items becoming

indexed

To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

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Book Team's Mission

To organize the world’s books and make them universally accessible and useful.

Organize the world's books – About the Book

Make accessible – Limited previews from publishers & authors (30,000 publisher partners)

Make accessible – Embedded Viewer for Libraries

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Google Books in a nutshell

Challenges 

A diversity of dates

• 18??• [196-?]• 1957/8• late 14th century• finita quarto nonas Januarias [1490]• mense Septembri: Anno Millesimo q[ui]ngentesimo decimonono

• mense iulio, anno M.D.XXXX• (Hebrew year 5751 = Gregorian 1990/1 CE) התשנ״א• ١٣٧٣ (either Islamic year 1373 AH = Gregorian 1953/4 CE or Persian year 1373 AP = Gregorian 1994/5 CE)

The Future   

Buy Anywhere: Purchase directly on Google Books, devices, retail partner sites, affiliates, and brick and mortar stores.

Read Anywhere: Users can read eBooks on desktop, tablets, iPhone, Android phone, and eInk Readers.  Cloud storage and cloud sync.

More to Read: Target is 400K+ paid books and over 2M free public domain books.

Google Editions

Books as a corpus of human knowledge

• Understand one book• Understand all books• Understand relations between books

Organize the world's books and make them universally accessible and useful

Thank You!