Utjecaj masovne digitalizacije na akademsku zajednicu u Bosni i Hercegovini
The Impact of Mass Digitization on the Academic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the mass digitization implemented in libraries in the world and with the impact of these projects on the academic community in BiH. The given Examples that are: ''Internet Archive'' projects (IA) and ''Google Books Library Project'' (GBLP) which were created in collaboration with the libraries. The IA was launched in 1996 with the purpose of offering free access of materials in digital form for various categories of users: from researchers, historians, scholars of all kinds to people with disabilities. With great difficulty and the efforts taken by the initiators, in April 2004 the project begins to develop in cooperation with the University of Toronto Library. They started with the digitization of materials that were public welfare. In the same year Google started a similar project. The GBLP is the result of partnership between Google and publishers and libraries. At the very beginning some of the most important library for science and research community in the world (Harvard University, Oxford, Stanford, Michigan and New York Public Library) joined them. Digitization process that Google implements starts with signing the contract with the library, and continues with the borrowing library materials with metadata, which is followed by digitization, OCR and indexing. After that, books are available to the public via internet either totally or restrictively, depending on the copyright. The IA and GBLP are still very active and popular projects in the world. Taking into consideration the large contribution they provide to the higher education in the developing countries, this paper will try to answer the question whether the promotion of such projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina could contribute to the development of the academic community in Bologna environment.

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