{"id":30,"date":"2004-12-22T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T12:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2004-12-22T12:48:35","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T12:48:35","slug":"google_takes_on_u_of_michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/22\/google_takes_on_u_of_michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"google takes on u. of michigan library &#8211; the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; <b>7,000,000<\/b>: Volumes in the U-M library to be digitized.<br \/>\n&#8211; <b>2,380,000,000<\/b>: Estimated number of pages.<br \/>\n&#8211; <b>743,750,000,000<\/b>: Estimated number of words.<br \/>\n&#8211; <b>1,600<\/b>: Years it would take U-M to digitize all 7 million volumes without Google&#8217;s special technology.<br \/>\n&#8211; <b>Fewer than 7<\/b>: Years it will take to digitize the volumes with Google&#8217;s technology.<br \/>\n&#8211; <b>$1 billion<\/b>: Estimated value of the project to U-M.<br \/>\n<i>Source: John Wilkin, associate university librarian, library information technology and technical and access services, University of Michigan<\/i><br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/money\/tech\/mwend14e_20041214.htm\">U-M&#8217;s entire library to be put on Google &#8211; Detroit Free Press<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; 7,000,000: Volumes in the U-M library to be digitized. &#8211; 2,380,000,000: Estimated number of pages. &#8211; 743,750,000,000: Estimated number of words. &#8211; 1,600: Years it would take U-M to digitize all 7 million volumes without Google&#8217;s special technology. &#8211; Fewer than 7: Years it will take to digitize the volumes with Google&#8217;s technology. &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries-search-and-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}