Re: Universal Library (ICO Coming Soon)

Quote from: Ted King on January 02, 2018, 04:33:25 PM

Quote from: universal-library on December 24, 2017, 03:35:56 AM

Hello everyone,

My name is Jonathan Thong, a data Analysis Doctor at the University of Melbourne (previously Sydney) and one of the cofounders of the upcoming project Universal Library. In short, we are working on a decentralised resource database which will be running on the Ethereum blockchain.

We are based in Australia, and currently three public Universities are working on this together. These are the University of Sydney (Sydney, AUS), University of Melbourne (Melbourne, AUS) and the Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, AUS).

We are still finalising the details, and will most likely be launching our crowdsale after the Christmas holidays (25th - 26th). I will consult with the team and update this post accordingly. Unfortunately, we have no plans to entertain pre-sales for this project.

Edit: Website is now up and running, feedback appreciated. http://universal-library.net/

We will announce in the next few days in a new thread the official launch of our crowdsale, thanks everyone.

I do not understand, what will your collection differ from the collections of books by Google? I think the whole problem is copyright, how do you want to cope with this problem?

Hi Ted, the majority of educational resources are fine to publish online given that proper references are made. For self-made contributions, we will be partnering with another Ethereum based project which is focused on digital ownership, the name I cannot disclose, but yes they are also our advisors.

As for your question in reference to why not just use google instead, the Universal Library search engine is not nearly as broad, it only acts as an peer rated encyclopaedia which is decentralised. We will further expand on this in our official announcement post.