On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:38:14 +0200, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
or Z.M.L.? ;-)
Do you mean this one?
I was just trolling, never mind.
7. Make it really distributed in order to facilitate the various copyright regimes. Right now the DP versions for Canada and Europe are hopelessly out of sync software-wise with the main DP site.
You mean DP-US is hopelessly behind the other ones because they can't do unicode.
No, mind you, I wrote 'out of sync'. Which doesn't say who is behind who in what terms.
The latter also gets me back to scanning: I am not aware of repositories comparable to IA in 50+ and 70+ countries. I can see good reasons not to take that bit on as well, however.
Many European governments have started scanning.
Yes, and like al government bureaucracies they're not acting particularly fast. Or worse, like the Royal Library here in the Netherlands, have entered into onerous agreements with Google. Regards, Walter