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	Open Content Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Open Content Alliance is a consortium of non-profit and for-profit groups which is dedicated to building a free archive of digital text and multimedia.
		You can see a sample of the open content at Open Library [1].
		A large difference between the OCA's approach and that of Google Book Search is that the OCA intends to ask a copyright holder before digitising a work that is still under copyright, while Google Book Search will digitise any book unless they were explicitly told not to do so by November 1, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_Content_Alliance (249 words)

	Open Content Alliance (OCA) - FAQ
		Metadata for all content in the OCA will be freely exposed to the public through formats such as the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and RSS.
		All content providers who contribute to the OCA must agree with the founding principles of the OCA, contained in the OCA Call for Participation, which describes how their materials and associated metadata will be accessed and used.
		OCA contributors must secure the permission of all concerned copyright holders prior to submitting materials to the OCA for digitization or inclusion in the archive.
	www.opencontentalliance.org /faq.html (644 words)

	Yahoo launches the Open Content Alliance
		Content will be hosted in a single, permanent repository and complete works will be searchable and downloadable for free by anyone.
		Governed by its contributors, the Open Content Alliance is designed to be a growing association that agrees to a set of openness principles.
		Content that is made available on the Open Content Alliance website will be available in PDF and other widely adopted formats.
	news-01.rankforsales.com /news-bs/001238-1003050816590317-sem-news.html (679 words)

	The Chronicle: 1/27/2006: Scribes of the Digital Era
		The alliance plans to take carefully selected collections of out-of-copyright books from libraries around the world and turn them into e-books that will be available free to scholars and anyone else who wants to view them, print them, or even download them to their own computers.
		The alliance's undertaking is more than just a mass-scanning project — it is a new model for cooperation among libraries hoping to build their own digital archives of public-domain materials.
		And the Open Content Alliance will make its digital books more freely available, putting them online in a way that anyone, even companies other than Yahoo and Microsoft, can index and search the files, or even download the books for their own use.
	chronicle.com /temp/reprint.php?id=ksh9jjbtz9yf5ttwl678ngdr80sx01kk (2033 words)

	Suber, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 11/2/05
		The OCA is consciously surpassing Google in the openness of its content, or the generosity of its gift, but it's also consciously surpassing Google in the legal stability of its business methods.
		Either publishers with Hybrid Open Access journals did not respond to the survey, or their numbers (at the time) were such that their absolute response was minimal.
		Also, the idea the Full Open Access journals report that they are breaking even has to be viewed in light of the comments from so many Open Access journals, often run by editors, asking what's a business model and or supported by volunteers, departments, or individuals.
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-05.htm#kaufman (11811 words)

	PCWorld.com - Online Library in the Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Open Content Alliance plans to launch digital media archive by year's end.
		Yahoo is one of a number of organizations supporting the Open Content Alliance, which plans to set up an online archive of existing digital collections of books and films, as well as to add new works to the archive.
		Yahoo will index that content and fund the digitization of a collection of American literature selected by the University of California, according to an announcement posted to Yahoo's official blog on Sunday by Brewster Kahle.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,122814,00.asp (450 words)

	Open Content Alliance: The World's Books For All
		The OCA has more software to help determine whether a particular book might be under copyright, and if so, to connect with another database created in partnership with libraries to find the copyright holder.
		OCA membership includes prestigious libraries and research institutions that have pledged to digitize priceless collections and make them available for search.
		While Yahoo was a founding member of the OCA, and MSN announced its membership at the event, Google (Quote, Chart) was conspicuously absent.
	www.internetnews.com /dev-news/article.php/3559446 (827 words)

	Grid: Who's Who
		The Content Alliance, initiated in August 2000, was formed to foster interoperability of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
		The Content Alliance is open to any technology vendor, service provider, or content provider interested in supporting the development of open standards for the advancement of content networking.
		While the Content Alliance may generate proposals for standards, it works through traditional standards bodies such as the IETF to gain broad industry acceptance.
	www.opengroup.org /tech/grid/whos-who.htm (471 words)

	Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact
		On October 4, Yahoo and ten partner organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance, which plans to build a free, permanent online repository for a wide range of print and multimedia content, including both copyrighted works and those that have passed into the public domain.
		Yahoo's partners in the alliance are Adobe Systems, the European Archive, Hewlett-Packard Labs, the Internet Archive, the National Archives of the United Kingdom, O'Reilly Media, the Prelinger Archives, the University of California, and the University of Toronto.
		Mandelbrot says the alliance will encourage other entities, including Google, to contribute to the repository, and will create a set of standards for digitization intended to make it easier to pool the products of various digitization efforts and to make them searchable from any search engine.
	www.technologyreview.com /articles/05/10/wo/wo_102005roush.asp?trk=top (476 words)

	Smart Mobs: Open Content Alliance launches
		Posted by Bryan at 06:07 AM The Open Content Alliance just launched, and looks like a very large, ambitious project to aggregate and make available digital content.
		To be clear, the public domain works in the Open Content Alliance can be "borrowed" in bulk for build navigation services, do research on, and the like.
		Content can be searched and found through the Yahoo-powered OCA main site.
	www.smartmobs.com /archive/2005/10/03/open_content_al.html (341 words)

	unmediated: Open Content Alliance (OCA) - Home
		The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia...
		Since we all primarily support open media movements and the freedom of bits and so forth, and with all of us being busy with our primary projects, we are looking for ways to make getting content on the site easier and more streamlined, while making it obvious that we are presenting other sources content.
		In the course of my surfing today, i found this new site, Boxxet Which just might be the straw that breaks the camel's back in how we all perceive the current mix and match nature of the web as it now stands.
	www.unmediated.org /archives/2005/10/open_content_al.php (1097 words)

	diglet: More details on Open Content Alliance
		RLG plans to supply bibliographic descriptions to Open Content Alliance digitizing operations Microsoft promises to help the OCA not only scan and digitize publicly available print materials, but also to work with copyright owners to legally scan protected materials.
		OCA is “not obligated to accept all content and may give preference to more widely accessible [content].” The first tenet of the OCA principles commits...
		OCA is “not obligated to accept all content and may give preference to more widely accessible [content].”
	gort.ucsd.edu /mtdocs/archives/diglet/002909.html (400 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Yahoo backs digital library plan
		As well as Yahoo, the Open Content Alliance also includes the non-profit Internet Archive, libraries from the universities of California and Toronto, Adobe and Hewlett-Packard.
		The Open Content Alliance said it would start with works that were in the public domain as well as those books in copyright that their owners were happy to be freely browsable online.
		The core of the Open Content Alliance library will be 18,000 classic works of American literature that include writing by Mark Twain, Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/4304192.stm (326 words)

	Library Journal - The Open Content Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The OCA effort, unlike that of Google, is based on respect for collections and the principles behind mass digitization of library materials.
		Since it is easier for organizations to participate, the OCA will easily have more participants, but the Google project may lead in the number of digitized volumes if it fulfills its promise.
		Open digitized content, after all, is a growing boon to all of our libraries and the users we serve.
	www.libraryjournal.com /article/CA6289918.html (701 words)

	Open Content Alliance Rises to the Challenge of Google Print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Permanently archived digital content, which is selected for its value by librarians, should offer a new model for collaborative library collection building, according to one OCA member.
		At the moment that means Déjà Vu, but the OCA is open to future changes and format developments, according to Kahle.
		Greenstein enthused over the fact that the OCA does not claim to have all the answers right now and that they are setting up a place where publishers, academics, libraries, and other interested parties can get together and work out problems.
	www.infotoday.com /newsbreaks/nb051003-2.shtml (1703 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Governed by its contributors, the OCA is designed to be a growing association that agrees to a set of openness principles.
		Initial content will be provided to the OCA by founding members including the University of California, the University of Toronto, the National Archives (UK), O'Reilly Media, Inc., and the European Archive.
		Content that is made available on the OCA Web site will be available in PDF and other formats.
	www.econtentmag.com /Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=14285 (507 words)

	A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut
		Content that members of the Open Content Alliance will digitize a will eventually be accessible in several places including the OCA web site and via Yahoo.
		I think the idea of allowing people to mine OCA content and create their own database is an exciting one.
		Of course, the OCA will have to make it easy for disparate groups to create their own tools, but this will be a business opportunity for those who can help create these types of tools.
	searchenginewatch.com /searchday/article.php/3553086 (1088 words)

	Editorial: The not-so-Open Content Alliance - Opinion & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		U of T is in very good company after recently joining the Open Content Alliance, a consortium of internet and software companies, national archives, and academic institutions dedicated to making digital content available and free online.
		The Open Content Alliance will do just that, by scanning, cataloguing, and making available online hundreds of years worth of rare, fragile, or inaccessible texts, films, and audio recordings.
		In contrast, the Open Content Alliance positively glows with righteous assertions of fairness and obedience to the strictures of copyright law.
	media.www.thevarsity.ca /media/storage/paper285/news/2005/10/24/OpinionAnalysis/Editorial.The.NotSoOpen.Content.Alliance-1031957.shtml?sourcedomain=www.thevarsity.ca&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com (414 words)

	SiliconBeat: Open Content Alliance: Where was Google?
		Here's our Mercury News story on the newly launched "Open Content Alliance," a consortium of companies and other groups that want to make digital content freely available on the Web.
		One of the Open Content Alliance's first projects will be to digitize the approximately 18,000-title collection of classic fiction and non-fiction American books owned by the University of California, the group said.
		The members of the Open Content Alliance say they will scan copyrighted material only if they have the permission of the rights-holders...
	www.siliconbeat.com /entries/2005/10/03/open_content_alliance_where_was_google.html (496 words)

	MobileRead Networks - Open Content Alliance launched
		The Open Content Alliance, a new project conceived by the Interet Archive and Yahoo!
		Unlike Google's Library Project, another digitizing project for which Google is being sued by the Author's Guild, works not in the public domain are only digitized after the copyright holders opt-in.
		Or at least have some sort of tiered release schedule so that maybe content is available for educational use after 5 years, for personal use after 10yrs and freely in the public domain after 10yrs.
	www.mobileread.com /forums/showthread.php?t=5119 (495 words)

	Open Content Alliance Expands Rapidly; Reveals Operational Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Almost all the new OCA contributors are university libraries, including Columbia University, The Johns Hopkins University, The University of Virginia, University of Pittsburgh, and several Canadian universities, as well as a cooperative project called the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
		At OCA’s inaugural event, Brewster Kahle stated that OCA would try to target the 80 percent of books published between 1923 and 1964 that are out of copyright, then expand to include orphaned books, where the publisher and author can not be found, then out-of-print works, and finally in-print material.
		Commenting on the OCA workshops conducted for participants before the evening inaugural event, Greenstein was amazed at how quickly the corporate and not-for-profit, public institutions aligned their thinking.
	www.infotoday.com /newsbreaks/nb051031-1.shtml (1682 words)

	RLG Joins the Open Content Alliance
		Mountain View, Calif., October 27, 2005—RLG, a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, and museums announced today that it will be a contributor to and partner with the Open Content Alliance (OCA) (www.opencontentalliance.org), a consortium that is building a permanent archive of digitized text and multimedia content.
		Generally, textual material from the OCA will be free to read, and in most cases, available for saving or printing using formats such as PDF.
		Says Michalko, "The OCA can be a rallying point and delivery focus for the long-term efforts of cultural institutions to create a resource that reflects the needs of scholars and students and honors the values of research."
	www.rlg.org /en/page.php?Page_ID=20831 (652 words)

	James Governor's MonkChips: Open Content Alliance = Google's Passport Hailstorm
		The Open Content Alliance is a community-based alternative to the mooted Google Library.
		India too.From my perspective the factors driving the creation of the OCA were very similar to the backlash that scuppered...
		Especially not when the alternative is a new regressive tax on business for content creators and rights holders.
	www.redmonk.com /jgovernor/archives/001016.html (1070 words)

	Yahoo Opens Content Alliance
		The Open Content Alliance will be an opt-in project aimed at building an indexed archive of content.
		Yahoo and other companies announced the Open Content Alliance, and hope to make more content that currently exists in print and other media available in a digital archive.
		Once content becomes part of the OCA index, it will be available for borrowing by others.
	www.searchnewz.com /searchnewz-12-20051003YahooOpensContentAlliance.html (426 words)

	TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home » ‘Yahoo to digitize public domain books’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The project, to be run by the newly formed Open Content Alliance (OCA), was designed to skirt copyright concerns that have plagued Google’s Print Library Project since it was begun last year.
		Will the OCA determine that works between 1923 and 1964 that did not have their copyright renewed are in the public domain?
		The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree of access to and reuse of collections in the archive, while respecting the content owners and contributors." Contributors to the Open Content Alliance include Adobe, European Archive, HP Labs, Internet Archive, National Archives (UK), O’Reilly Media, Prelinger Archives, University of California, University of Toronto, and Yahoo!
	www.teleread.org /blog/?p=3656 (977 words)

	[No title]
		One major difference between the Open Content Alliance and Google's project is the Open Content Alliance's focus on material in the public domain.
		The University of California system and University of Toronto will be providing much of the content for the project, and the University of California Press will likely allow much, if not all, of its content to be reproduced by the Open Content Alliance.
		In addition, the Alliance is soliciting the participation of other libraries and institutions in the Alliance.
	www.arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20051003-5378.html (438 words)

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