Lars Aronsson, 30/08/2012 01:51:
A Google search reveals that NB.no is indeed indexed,
but with a less perfect OCR text, and Wikisource
comes out on top,
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22nansen+very+carefully+revised+the+text%22
Interesting to see that the
archive.org OCR for that passage has a
quality level in the middle of Wikisource's and nb.no's and is below
both in pagerank. Is
archive.org already fetching their books, or is
someone uploading them there? This reminds me that I posted
http://archive.org/post/426995/finereader-11 .
---Now for the news---
The other day, NB.no announced that they have signed
a new agreement with Kopinor to continue this project
and cover the whole of Norwegian literature until the
year 2000. Some 250,000 titles will be available
before 2017.
Thank you for this. So, are all those titles covered by the new contract
(copyrighted)? Who's materially doing the scans and who's paying for
them? Are they going to Europeana and do they follow Europeana's PD best
practices?
Thanks,
Nemo