Lars Aronsson, 30/08/2012 01:51:
A Google search reveals that NB.no is indeed indexed, but with a less perfect OCR text, and Wikisource comes out on top, http://www.google.com/search?q=%22nansen+very+carefully+revised+the+text%22
Interesting to see that the archive.org OCR for that passage has a quality level in the middle of Wikisource's and nb.no's and is below both in pagerank. Is archive.org already fetching their books, or is someone uploading them there? This reminds me that I posted http://archive.org/post/426995/finereader-11 .
---Now for the news---
The other day, NB.no announced that they have signed a new agreement with Kopinor to continue this project and cover the whole of Norwegian literature until the year 2000. Some 250,000 titles will be available before 2017.
Thank you for this. So, are all those titles covered by the new contract (copyrighted)? Who's materially doing the scans and who's paying for them? Are they going to Europeana and do they follow Europeana's PD best practices? Thanks, Nemo