Technical issues on the China-US million book digital library project

Authors:
Jihai Zhao;Chen Huang
Affiliations:
Zhejiang University Libraries, Hangzhou, China;Zhejiang University Libraries, Hangzhou, China
Venue:
ICADL'04 Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on Digital Libraries: international collaboration and cross-fertilization
Year:
2004

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Abstract

The China-US Million Book Digital Library Project (MBP) is a cooperated project of universities and institutes in China and USA, with funding from the Ministry of Education of China (MOE) and National Science Foundation of USA (NSF). The objective of MBP is to create a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, available to everyone over the Internet. This task will be accomplished by scanning the books and indexing their full text. Based on the plan and experience in MBP, six technical issues are presented in this paper, such as content selection, copyright clearance, data production, metadata creation, digital preservation and access, and quality control. The current status of the project and the future plan are discussed.