Google Books Project ,A Lecture at Refresher Course , DAVV, Indore 17-18, Feb, 2012 Dr. Nirmal Kumar Swain Assistant Professor Banasthali University Rajasthan – 304022 nkswainlisfaculty@gmail.com

1. Google Books Project
A Lecture by Dr. Nirmal Kumar Swain
Dr. Nirmal Kumar Swain
Assistant Professor
Banasthali University
Rajasthan – 304022
nkswainlisfaculty@gmail.com

2. Google Books Project
A Lecture at Refresher Course ,
DAVV, Indore
17-18, Feb, 2012

3. Google Confidential and Proprietary
Overview
• Why and how Google scans books
• Challenges
• The Future

4. Why and How Google Scans Books

5. Google Confidential and Proprietary
Google’s mission
Online content
Billions of web pages
Offline content
Billions of items becoming
indexed
To organize the world’s information and make
it universally accessible and useful.

6. Google Confidential and Proprietary
Book Team's Mission
To organize the world’s books and make them
universally accessible and useful.

7. Organize the world's books – About the Book

8. Make accessible – Limited previews from
publishers & authors (30,000 publisher partners)

9. Make accessible – Embedded Viewer for Libraries

10. Google Confidential and Proprietary
Google Books in a nutshell

11. Challenges

12. A diversity of dates
• 18??
• [196-?]
• 1957/8
• late 14th century
• finita quarto nonas Januarias [1490]
• mense Septembri: Anno Millesimo q[ui]ngentesimo
decimonono
• mense iulio, anno M.D.XXXX
• ‫התשנ״א‬ (Hebrew year 5751 = Gregorian 1990/1 CE)
• ١٣٧٣ (either Islamic year 1373 AH = Gregorian 1953/4 CE or
Persian year 1373 AP = Gregorian 1994/5 CE)

13. The Future

14. Buy Anywhere:
Purchase directly on Google Books, devices, retail
partner sites, affiliates, and brick and mortar stores.
Read Anywhere:
Users can read eBooks on desktop, tablets, iPhone,
Android phone, and eInk Readers. Cloud storage and
cloud sync.
More to Read:
Target is 400K+ paid books and over 2M free public
domain books.
Google Editions

15. Books as a corpus of human knowledge
• Understand one book
• Understand all books
• Understand relations
between books

16. Organize the world's books and make them
universally accessible and useful

17. Thank You!