This paper starts with a description of the present status of the Digital Library of India Initiative. As part of this initiative large corpus of scanned text is available in many Indian languages and has stimulated a...This paper starts with a description of the present status of the Digital Library of India Initiative. As part of this initiative large corpus of scanned text is available in many Indian languages and has stimulated a vast amount of research in Indian language technology briefly described in this paper. Other than the Digital Library of India Initiative which is part of the Million Books to the Web Project initiated by Prof Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University, there are a few more initiatives in India towards taking the heritage of the country to the Web. This paper presents the future directions for the Digital Library of India Initiative both in terms of growing collection and the technical challenges in managing such large collection poses.展开更多
Digitization projects should focus on quantity rather than quality. Increasing quantities of information produce qualitatively more valuable services. Online writing and searching are now common, and it is only online...Digitization projects should focus on quantity rather than quality. Increasing quantities of information produce qualitatively more valuable services. Online writing and searching are now common, and it is only online reading that is still limiting our use of online books. New interfaces might increase our willingness to read online, which should be encouraged rather than fought, since it represents an increase both the amount of information available and the participation of more people in the writing and exchange of information.展开更多
Google’s announcement that it intended to digitize all the books in several major research libraries was met with mixed reactions. John Wilkin at the University of Michigan declared “This is the day the world chang...Google’s announcement that it intended to digitize all the books in several major research libraries was met with mixed reactions. John Wilkin at the University of Michigan declared “This is the day the world changes,” while Rory Litwin said in Library Juice that the move would “commercialize the great research libraries with a handshake, suddenly and epochally.” The four directors of the Universal Library and Million Book Project have received many questions about the comparative aspects of our work and Google Print. My purpose is to compare the two, talking about their genesis, the realities of collections and logistics, and the worries that arise from these realities.展开更多
Since 2007 the CSES is the only source that every year has provided estimates of Cambodian demographic statistics such as population and household sizes by geographical region, sex, marital status and ethnicity. This ...Since 2007 the CSES is the only source that every year has provided estimates of Cambodian demographic statistics such as population and household sizes by geographical region, sex, marital status and ethnicity. This ＂work＂ describes the methodology used to make the estimates consistent with Census projections taking into account change in household sizes. The methods are based on assumptions and they will adjust the weights of the survey. The assumptions need to be evaluated continuously and this presentation is the first documentation and evaluation. Using time series of some key statistics, the work also presents and discusses the demographic development in Cambodia. A future decision if the methodology in the CSES has to be completely changed or just updated must be made when the Inter-censual result from 2013 are available.展开更多
文摘This paper starts with a description of the present status of the Digital Library of India Initiative. As part of this initiative large corpus of scanned text is available in many Indian languages and has stimulated a vast amount of research in Indian language technology briefly described in this paper. Other than the Digital Library of India Initiative which is part of the Million Books to the Web Project initiated by Prof Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University, there are a few more initiatives in India towards taking the heritage of the country to the Web. This paper presents the future directions for the Digital Library of India Initiative both in terms of growing collection and the technical challenges in managing such large collection poses.
文摘Digitization projects should focus on quantity rather than quality. Increasing quantities of information produce qualitatively more valuable services. Online writing and searching are now common, and it is only online reading that is still limiting our use of online books. New interfaces might increase our willingness to read online, which should be encouraged rather than fought, since it represents an increase both the amount of information available and the participation of more people in the writing and exchange of information.
文摘Google’s announcement that it intended to digitize all the books in several major research libraries was met with mixed reactions. John Wilkin at the University of Michigan declared “This is the day the world changes,” while Rory Litwin said in Library Juice that the move would “commercialize the great research libraries with a handshake, suddenly and epochally.” The four directors of the Universal Library and Million Book Project have received many questions about the comparative aspects of our work and Google Print. My purpose is to compare the two, talking about their genesis, the realities of collections and logistics, and the worries that arise from these realities.
文摘Since 2007 the CSES is the only source that every year has provided estimates of Cambodian demographic statistics such as population and household sizes by geographical region, sex, marital status and ethnicity. This ＂work＂ describes the methodology used to make the estimates consistent with Census projections taking into account change in household sizes. The methods are based on assumptions and they will adjust the weights of the survey. The assumptions need to be evaluated continuously and this presentation is the first documentation and evaluation. Using time series of some key statistics, the work also presents and discusses the demographic development in Cambodia. A future decision if the methodology in the CSES has to be completely changed or just updated must be made when the Inter-censual result from 2013 are available.
