Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices
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- FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF DIGITIZING EBOOKS
- PROJECT GUTENBERG’S PRACTICES
- ABSTRACT
- HISTORICAL ROOTS
- EMPHASIS ON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
- ITEMS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR ONE OF THREE REASONS
- COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND EARLY MARKUP
- PROOFREADING
- EVOLUTION IN PROOFREADING: DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS
- SCANNING
- COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE OR PERMISSION
- MULTIPLE SOURCES
- OTHER CONTENT TYPES
- LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH
- EVOLUTION OF MASTER SOURCE FORMATS
- DERIVATIVE FORMATS
- UPLOADING A NEW EBOOK
- EPUB and MOBI
- CATALOGING AND MIRRORING
- “NO SWEAT OF THE BROW COPYRIGHT”
- EBOOKS, OR PICTURES OF BOOKS?
- PAST INNOVATIONS AND FUTURE INITIATIVES
- APPRECIATION FOR VOLUNTEERS
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