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Dec. 18th, 2001 12:00 amAfter waking up at noon, I walked down to town, completing the following tasks: purchase LTH stickers at KFΣ; look for reglerteknik books at UB2; print out reglerteknik exams from the past at the ED building; return City of Quartz (still mostly unread) to UB:Helgonbaken; check out On The Road (Kerouac), Lonely Planet's guide to St. Petersburg, Off The Map (Mark Jenkins), and Waking the Tempests (Eleanor Randolph) from Statsbiblioteket; visit Glerups; initiate the process of getting a new Swedish ATM card from Handelsbanken; eat a Falafel; return to the library to see if they have any books on Lebanon or Beirut; take out SEK 2000 from the ATM; return to Delphi.
Project idea: Project Gutenberg is a great and noble project, one to digitize great and important literature whose copyright has expired. I'd very much like to see as a counterpoint to Project Gutenberg a project whose goal is to digitize literature and other media whose copyright hasn't expired. It used to take a very long time to type an entire book. With OCR it became a lot easier, but scanners were still slow. It seems to me that once could use a digital camera now to "scan" the pages of a book, doing the OCR in realtime. Assuming 10 seconds per pair of pages, On The Road could be digitized in a half hour. Furthermore, it would be nice to see a facility to present digitized text more attractively and conveniently than Gutenberg's Zip'ed ASCII text files. For longevity and portability, of course, ASCII text can't be beat, but perhaps some kind of SGML/XML type markup might be appropriate? That would also aid in indexing and searching in a database. Furthermore, it would be cool if some kind of online book-viewing system could be developed that allowed annotations to be made and shared in the literature. Allusions could be cross-referenced, and all kinds of cool things could be done.
Put Denmark-Sweden-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania map on the wall.
Evening. Feeling ill.
Project idea: Project Gutenberg is a great and noble project, one to digitize great and important literature whose copyright has expired. I'd very much like to see as a counterpoint to Project Gutenberg a project whose goal is to digitize literature and other media whose copyright hasn't expired. It used to take a very long time to type an entire book. With OCR it became a lot easier, but scanners were still slow. It seems to me that once could use a digital camera now to "scan" the pages of a book, doing the OCR in realtime. Assuming 10 seconds per pair of pages, On The Road could be digitized in a half hour. Furthermore, it would be nice to see a facility to present digitized text more attractively and conveniently than Gutenberg's Zip'ed ASCII text files. For longevity and portability, of course, ASCII text can't be beat, but perhaps some kind of SGML/XML type markup might be appropriate? That would also aid in indexing and searching in a database. Furthermore, it would be cool if some kind of online book-viewing system could be developed that allowed annotations to be made and shared in the literature. Allusions could be cross-referenced, and all kinds of cool things could be done.
Put Denmark-Sweden-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania map on the wall.
Evening. Feeling ill.
