The Early Development of Project Gutenberg c.19702000 (Paperback)

Simon Rowberry

ISBN 10: 1108743188 / ISBN 13: 9781108743181

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023

Beschreibung

Paperback. Project Gutenberg is lauded as one of the earliest digitisation initiatives, a mythology that Michael Hart, its founder perpetuated through to his death in 2011. In this Element, the author re-examines the extant historical evidence to challenge some of Hart's bolder claims and resituates the significance of Project Gutenberg in relation to broader trends in online document delivery and digitisation in the latter half of the twentieth century, especially in the World Wide Web's first decade (the 1990s). Through this re-appraisal, the author instead suggests that Hart's Project is significant as an example of what Millicent Weber has termed a digital publishing collective whereby a group of volunteers engage in producing content and that process is as meaningful as the final product. Project Gutenberg is lauded as one of the earliest digitisation initiatives, a mythology that Michael Hart, its founder perpetuated through to his death in 2011. In this Element, the author re-examines the extant historical evidence to challenge some of Hart's bolder claims. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781108743181

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Titel: The Early Development of Project Gutenberg c...

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Erscheinungsdatum: 2023

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: new

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Project Gutenberg is more significant as a place for community building than the first ebook publisher.