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Google finances projects to test digital library
Published in Daily News Egypt on 15 - 07 - 2010

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc. is giving researchers nearly a half-million dollars to test the academic value of its rapidly growing online library.
The grants announced Wednesday will be used to help pay for 12 humanities projects studying questions that will require sifting through thousands of books to reach meaningful conclusions.
Google is hoping the research will validate its long-held belief that making electronic copies of old books will bring greater enlightenment to the world.
The company's critics, though, have argued that the Internet search leader has trampled over copyright laws to build a commanding early lead in digital books so it can boost profits.
The winners of Google's "digital humanities" awards include a project at George Mason University seeking to draw a more accurate portrait of the Victorian age through a deeper analysis of the vocabulary used in the books from that period.
Other researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Washington are studying tools and techniques for automated library analysis.
The 23 scholars receiving $479,000 in grants are scattered across 15 universities. They're eligible to apply next year for the remaining $521,000 that Google has budgeted for its digital humanities awards.
Google set out in 2004 to make electronic copies of all the books in the world to feed more compelling material into its online search engine and make more human knowledge available to anyone with an Internet connection.
But those book-scanning ambitions quickly became bogged down in legal battles over copyright issues that still haven't been resolved.
Google has made digital copies of more than 12 million books so far, but they aren't all available to see because of a dispute centered on out-of-print books still protected by copyrights.
Google is still awaiting a federal judge's ruling on a proposed settlement that would give the company the digital rights to the out-of-print books.
The US Department of Justice, consumer watchdog groups and several of Google's rivals have objected to the agreement on the grounds that the settlement threatens to give Google too much power in the digital book market.


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