Official Google Research Blog: Our commitment to the digital humanities: "Our commitment to the digital humanities
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 7/14/2010 03:45:00 AM
Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager for Google Books, Magazines and Patents
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)
It can’t have been very long after people started writing that they started to organize and comment on what was written. Look at the 10th century Venetus A manuscript, which contains scholia written fifteen centuries earlier about texts written five centuries before that. Almost since computers were invented, people have envisioned using them to expose the interconnections of the world’s knowledge. That vision is finally becoming real with the flowering of the web, but in a notably limited way: very little of the world’s culture predating the web is accessible online. Much of that information is available only in printed books."
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