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In December 2003, there were 11,000 books digizited in several formats, most of them in ASCII, and some of them in HTML or XML. This represented 46,000 files, and 110 G. On 13 February 2004, the day of Michael Hart's presentation at UNESCO, in Paris, there were exactly 11,340 books in 25 languages. In May 2004, the 12,581 books represented 100,000 files in 20 different formats, and 135 gigabytes.
2003/10: The number of books doubled in 18 months, going from 5,000 to 10,000. 2003/12: First DVD, with 9,400 books. 2003: Digitization of 348 books per month. 2003/12: Launching of Distributed Proofreaders Europe by Project Rastko. 2004/01: Launching of Project Gutenberg Europe by Project Rastko. 2004/02: Michael Hart's presentation at UNESCO headquarters, in Paris.
Aside from the victory-defeat relationship which led to political realignments during the post-war years, the essence of the experience is to be found in the UNESCO phrase "weakened in every way". Another way of describing the experience is to state that the participants in this four year blood bath were "bled white." It is easy to be specific.
Minority groups were particularly interested in the work of UNESCO which, among other things, studied the nature of prejudice and racism and tried to develop programs to eradicate these evils. The U.N. also formed a Human Rights Commission, and Afro-Americans expected that whatever action the U.N. took to support human rights throughout the world would also have an impact on their situation.
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