The Open
Content Alliance offers what appears to be higher-quality scanning than Google's and numerous display options, including simple text (which is the best type to view when you want to copy and paste) as well as PDF and DjVu (a high-resolution, high-compression program).
According to Publishers Weekly, publicly available print materials in the libraries will be scanned, digitised and indexed to make them accessible to customers, with the support of the Open
Content Alliance (OCA).
Now the Google project has been joined by another ambitious plan: the Open
Content Alliance (OCA), announced in October 2005 (www.opencontentalliance.org).
Working in conjunction with the Open
Content Alliance, whose participants include Internet company Yahoo Inc, the new service aims to provide users with access to approximately 150,000 pieces of published material.
CMG's
Content Alliance Program is designed to establish broad-ranging marketing partnerships with content providers who are interested in the mobile Internet market.
The other members of the executive team include Phil Evans, CFO; Kevin Norris, general counsel and senior vice president of global
content alliance; Simon Beale, senior vice president of global sales and training; Lynda James-Gilboe, senior vice president of enterprise marketing and customer care; Sy Inwentarz, interim CIO; and Jill Hutton, interim head of human resources.
The Google Library Print project, the Open
Content Alliance, and others have taken on incredibly ambitious projects to digitize enormous numbers of books in some of the world's biggest libraries.
with the Open
Content Alliance (www.opencontentalliance.org), are taking previous book-archiving efforts to a new level.
The Open
Content Alliance (OCA) is an attempt by several global organizations to consolidate digital content, including multimedia content, from libraries and publishers of culture, history, and technology into one place for everyone.
In response, Yahoo has recently teamed with the University of California, the University of Toronto, the National Archive in England, Microsoft and others to create the Open
Content Alliance.