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Janus Challenge #1: RECON
This challenge was initially framed in terms of a collective effort to comprehensively digitize print publications through an aggressive and coordinated redeployment of local materials budgets. Large-scale digitizing initiatives by Google, the Open Content Alliance, the European Union, and other groups have since arisen or further developed. Some previously […]

Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:13:30 -0500
From: “Shreeves, Edward”
Whither Recon?
Not much has moved forward with the Recon challenge since the annual
conference and the work done at the end of 2005 immediately following
the Janus Conference. Finding a mutually convenient time for a
conference call seems futile, so Dan and I would like to get some
discussion going […]