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October 21, 2007

Aaron Swartz on the Open Library project

If you're interested in the future of books and libraries, and if you're in Cambridge MA on Tuesday, you should come to the Berkman Center at 12:30 to hear Aaron Swartz talk about the Open Library project, which is gathering a global, open and free list of every book it can find out about. It's also attempting to help with the problem that books exist at multiple levels of abstraction: There's Hamlet, editions of Hamlet, Hamlet in anthologies, Hamlet in translation, books based on Hamlet, etc. This is an important and fascinating project.

We serve lunch. Please RSVP. See you there...or on the webcast. (Details) [Tags: open_library aaron_swartz libraries books_everything_is_miscellaneous ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at October 21, 2007 10:15 AM

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See today's New York Times for an article about this.

Andy Weinberger

Posted by: Andy Weinberger | October 22, 2007 04:48 PM

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