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Searching and Accessing the Cultural Heritage in a Digital World Yoram Elkaim International Conference

Searching and Accessing the Cultural Heritage in a Digital World Yoram Elkaim International Conference on Intellectual Property & Cultural Heritage in the Digital World Madrid - 29 October 2009

Organize the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful Online information Billions

Organize the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful Online information Billions of web pages are indexed 2 Offline information The vast majority of knowledge is invisible in the digital world

Search Access 3

Search Access 3

Search 4

Search 4

How Does Google Book Search Work? Same as regular Google search Users search through

How Does Google Book Search Work? Same as regular Google search Users search through every word and phrase in our index of the billions of web pages Users search through every word and phrase in the index of books we’ve digitized And view a few sentences from the web page And view a few pages from books in the Partner Program

Books are listed in search results Google Confidential

Books are listed in search results Google Confidential

Library Partners

Library Partners

Publishing Partners Over 2 Million Books Over 30, 000 Publishers Over 70 Domains. com.

Publishing Partners Over 2 Million Books Over 30, 000 Publishers Over 70 Domains. com. ca. co. uk. com. au. co. in. co. nz. ie. co. za. com. pk. as. tt. co. ke. com. jm. co. ug. fr. de. it. es. nl. be. at. ch. mu. com. sg. com. my. sh. vg. co. je. ms. off. ai. com. gi. co. ck. com. nf. co. ls. co. vi. com. ag. com. bz. com. fj. com. na. com. np. com. vc. fm. gm. mw. pn. rw. sc. to. com. mx. cl. com. ar. com. co. ve. com. pa. com. do. cr. com. ec. com. gt. com. pe. com. sv. com. uy. com. bo. hn. com. ni. com. py. com. br. cn. com. hk. com. tw. co. jp Google Confidential and Proprietary

One service, four interfaces Full View (public domain) Short extracts « snippets » (in-copyright

One service, four interfaces Full View (public domain) Short extracts « snippets » (in-copyright US libraries books) Limited Preview (Partner Program) No preview (not indexed)

Library Project: public domain books 2 Users can: • Read entire book online •

Library Project: public domain books 2 Users can: • Read entire book online • Download a pdf • View the plain text • Search within the book itself • Buy the book online, or find it in a library… 10

Library Project: in-copyright books (US libraries) Users can: • View general info on the

Library Project: in-copyright books (US libraries) Users can: • View general info on the book • See up to three snippets of text that include the search term • Search within the book itself • Buy the book online, or find it in a library… The user does not have the ability to page through the book 11

Access

Access

Improving access to books Number of books published in Europe in 2008? More than

Improving access to books Number of books published in Europe in 2008? More than 600, 000 Duration of © protection? 70 years after death of author Average commercial life of a book? Between 1 and 3 months 13

A Typical Library Collection What’s in the middle is largely invisible to Internet users

A Typical Library Collection What’s in the middle is largely invisible to Internet users 15% In Print Unclear status Books that • May be in the public domain • May be in copyright, but not for sale • Rights holders are unknown, rights may have reverted to author Google Confidential Public Domain

Maximizing the Value of Copyright in the Digital World 15 15

Maximizing the Value of Copyright in the Digital World 15 15

Contractual Solutions Credit : jk 5458 16

Contractual Solutions Credit : jk 5458 16

Legislative Solutions Credit: NCin. DC 17

Legislative Solutions Credit: NCin. DC 17

Thank you! 18

Thank you! 18