Lisa Spiro, director of the Digital Media Center at Rice University’s Fondren Library, has an excellent blog
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. A few weeks ago she posted a clear and detailed comparison of 5 collections of digital texts (
Google Books, the
Internet Archive,
Project Gutenberg,
Early American Fiction, and
Making of America), concentrating on 6 factors that determine the usefulness of each for purposes of scholarship:
- Quality of the scanning
- Quality of the OCR/text conversion
- Quality of the metadata
- Terms of use
- Convenience
- Reputation in the world of scholarship
Presciently she omitted the
soon-to-be-shuttered Microsoft Live Book search service.
Her posts are always worth reading, but this one is particularly recommended.
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