http://hdl.handle.net/11716/12 2026-05-09T10:09:40Z 2026-05-09T10:09:40Z Górski, Michał Tomkiewicz, Łukasz Wajda, Grzegorz http://hdl.handle.net/11716/12452 2023-09-23T09:27:17Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dokumenty polskojęzyczne w kolekcji eBooks and Texts serwisu Internet Archive Górski, Michał; Tomkiewicz, Łukasz; Wajda, Grzegorz Internet Archive, an ambitious project by Brewster Kahle, seems to be one of the more interesting bottom-up initiatives, not connected directly with government financing. Although this multi-format archive is known in Poland mainly through archiving old versions of websites from all over the world, one must not forget that its mission is also to gather ebooks and other written texts, sound and visual files, as well as old software versions for various platforms. Among petabytes of archived data there are over 11 million various texts in digital version (in comparison, the Digital Libraries Federation library comprises over 4 million digital objects), of which over 10 million is free to access. The archive resources include mainly texts written in English (over 8.6 million), but there are also examples of texts in most known languages. Texts in Polish comprise a group of almost six thousand. The article aims at propagating the idea of spreading knowledge within the Internet Archive project. It describes documents in Polish from the eBooks and Texts collection, as well as the Open Library service, together with the Bookserver platform, thanks to which it is possible to rent digital copies of copyrighted texts.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Siedlarz, Bartłomiej http://hdl.handle.net/11716/12450 2023-09-23T09:09:16Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dokumenty ciągłe w polskich bibliotekach cyfrowych – użycie zasobu i sposoby prezentacji treści Siedlarz, Bartłomiej Magazines are an important part, and for some digital libraries even a majority of digital resource. Individual issues of old titles are scattered throughout many institutions and disseminated independently, often without any connections allowing for locating other parts of the resource. The effects of the dispersion can be minimized, however. The results of the digitalization projects show variety in the way of approaching the resource. Comparing the approaches with the aspects of delivering the resource can help with selecting adequate methods of creating and describing the presented documents in order to facilitate their use in the future.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Lebda, Małgorzata Krasińska, Barbara http://hdl.handle.net/11716/12448 2023-09-23T08:51:24Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendencje w projektowaniu okładek współczesnych publikacji elektronicznych. Wybrane przykłady Lebda, Małgorzata; Krasińska, Barbara The need to connect the traditional aesthetic school (based on the philosophy of art) with a new variety of the electronic-media sphere is an issue new media theorists have been working on for many years. The new area, described among others as: communication, digital, electronic, or new-media aesthetics, due to the diversity (formal and technical) of the graphical material, which it studies – it cannot be described using the traditional methodology, it also cannot be limited to the same aesthetic framework. Different contexts can be used to characterize virtual exhibitions, photography, videos or electronic publications (decoded using fractal compression, rather than the traditional/linear one). With the arrival of the electronic media art, a “qualitative” shift of the presented material takes place. According to common assumption, the differentiating factor of a piece of art becomes its “generability” rather than “reproducibility”. As Krystyna Wilkoszewska points out, the new media aesthetics can draw from ages-long traditions, or it can (considering the fact that electronic media radically change - in terms of ontology and epistemology – the basic elements of the aesthetic situation) try to build a digital aesthetics from ground up as an aesthetics of a new kind of culture and art29. According to the authors of this article, the tool for studying new digital material can be found in inter alia the rules (the so called “eight laws of artistic experience” by Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran and William Hirstein30) successfully used in visuality research. The article includes an analysis of the graphic layout od selected electronic book covers. It will mainly comprise digital born works (not related to any traditional/printed equivalents). Attention is also paid to the visual aspect of this group of objects. The considerations focus on which tendencies in graphic design of modern e-books can be observed today.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Górski, Michał Tomkiewicz, Łukasz Wajda, Grzegorz http://hdl.handle.net/11716/12447 2023-09-23T08:44:11Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piractwo czy nieformalny obieg książek elektronicznych w Polsce? Próba charakterystyki Górski, Michał; Tomkiewicz, Łukasz; Wajda, Grzegorz The phenomenon commonly called piracy has generated more and more interest in recent years. The area, at first only known to a small part of the Polish society, has become common at the beginning of 2012, in connection with the works of the government on the ratification of ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). The activization of a large part of Polish people showed that the issue is not marginal. The illegal circulation of culture is also an important element of the digital book market in Poland, especially in the era of common Internet access. Despite holding debates and making attempts at solving the problem, there are still many aspects of piracy that are not even clearly defined. This is yet another reason to take a closer look at this phenomenon. The article presents the terms connected with the topic of piracy, with special consideration for digital books. An attempt is also made to distinguish the main aspects responsible for the development of illegal circulation of culture, as well as to describe the example methods of combating the phenomenon. In order to explore this topic, a correlation is made between it and the history of shaping the copyright laws and the development of the piracy market. Furthermore, various stances on piracy are presented, including the perspectives of creators and publishers, as well as recipients of culture.

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