Open Content Alliance
The Open Content Alliance (OCA) was a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October 2005 by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others.[1] Scanning for the Open Content Alliance was administered by the Internet Archive, which also provided permanent storage and access through its website.
The OCA was, in part, a response to
Microsoft had a special relationship with the Open Content Alliance until May 2008. Microsoft joined the Open Content Alliance in October 2005 as part of its Live Book Search project.[2] However, in May 2008 Microsoft announced it would be ending the Live Book Search project and no longer funding the scanning of books through the Internet Archive.[3] Microsoft removed any contractual restrictions on the content they had scanned and they relinquished the scanning equipment to their digitization partners and libraries to continue digitization programs.[3] Between about 2006 and 2008 Microsoft sponsored the scanning of over 750,000 books, 300,000 of which are now part of the Internet Archive's on-line collections.
Opposition to Google Book Settlement
Contributors
The following are contributors to the OCA:
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
- Boston Library Consortium
- Boston Public Library
- The Bancroft Library
- The British Library
- Columbia University Libraries
- Emory University Library
- European Archive
- Getty Research Institute
- HP Labs
- Indiana University Libraries
- Internet Archive
- Johns Hopkins University Libraries
- McMaster University
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- MSN
- The National Archives
- National Writers Union[4]
- Natural History Museum, London
- National Library of Australia
- O'Reilly Media
- Perseus Project
- Prelinger Library and Prelinger Archives
- Research Libraries Group
- Rice University Libraries
- San Francisco Public Library
- Simon Fraser University Library
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala
- University of Alberta Libraries
- University of British Columbia Library
- University of California Libraries
- University of Chicago
- University of Georgia
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Ottawa
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Texas
- University of Toronto
- University of Virginia Library
- Washington University in St. Louis
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Xerox Corporation
- Yahoo!
- York University Library
Biodiversity Heritage Library, a cooperative project of:
- American Museum of Natural History
- Harvard University Botany Libraries
- Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Natural History Museum, London
- The New York Botanical Garden
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
See also
- Digital library
- Google Book Search
- Internet Archive
- List of digital library projects
- Project Gutenberg
- Universal library
References
- ^ Katie Hafner (October 3, 2005). "Open Content Alliance". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
- ^ Katie Hafner (2005-10-26). "Microsoft to Offer Online Book-Content Searches". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
- ^ a b "Book search winding down", Live Search Blog. Official announcement from Microsoft. Last accessed May 23, 2008.
- ^ "National Writers Union Joins Open Book Alliance". Nwuboston.org. 2009-09-04. Archived from the original on 2009-09-07. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
External links
- "Opencontentalliance.org". Archived from the original on November 13, 2016. (official website)
- Video from Open Content Alliance Launch, Oct 2005