links for 2008-10-20
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"HathiTrust is a bold idea with big plans. As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust (pronounced hah-tee) brings together the immense collections of partner institutions." The University libraries collaborating with Google's Book Search have joined together to combine and share their libraries' holdings (over 80Tb at this point) on the web, giving them the ability to use the enormous database as befits each institution's own mission, without being required to conform to Google's (ultimately) commercial aims.
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Microsoft -- yes, Microsoft! -- makes it easy to download and install open source apps like Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress on the Microsoft Web platform. By bundling an installer and configuration tool, Microsoft hopes to make WISP a strong alternative to LAMP for open source apps.
